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Minister for social exclusion and equalities Barbara Roche has said there is a strong case for allowing same-sex couples to register their relationships. Co-habiting couples do not currently receive the same tax breaks or entitlements that married couples

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• Telegraph: Bill to give gay couples more rights - Joshua Rozenberg, legal editor. A Private Members Bill to give homosexuals and cohabitants some of the rights enjoyed by married couples will be launched this week by the Liberal Democrat lawyer, Lord Lester of Herne Hill, QC, in the House of Lords.
• Economist: The case for gay marriage - "It rests on equality, liberty and even society."
• Guardian: New legal rights for gay couples - Clare Dyer, legal correspondent. Same-sex partners to get property and inheritance entitlements, but new law will not extend to recognition of unmarried heterosexuals.
• Guardian: A marriage by any other name - Adrian Gillan. With equality in sight, it is therefore more news and media important than ever that the gay community does not relax news and media but plays the most active role possible in the consultation news and media and debate over the coming months.
• BBC: Religion & Ethics: Homosexuality and Marriage - Extended analysis in a question and answer format.
• Times: The unsalacious truth about sex and marriage - Matthew Parris. The result is a mess: a practical legal issues contract settling rights and duties on both parties in the issues way a business partnership may do, all tangled up with issues connotations of emotional and moral and spiritual pledges, and cultural issues blessing. Thu
• BBC: Equality 'too late' for many couples - While plans to improve the legal status of issues gay couples news and media have been welcomed, any changes will issues be too late for news and media those who have already issues lost a partner.
• BBC: Gay couples 'to get equal rights' - Minister for social exclusion and equalities Barbara Roche has said there is a strong case for allowing same-sex couples to register their relationships. Co-habiting couples do not currently receive the same tax breaks or entitlements that married couples
• Telegraph: Pope attacks 'evil' gay marriages - Government proposals to recognise homosexual "civil partnerships" were denounced by civil partnerships bill the Pope yesterday as the legitimisation of "evil". Moves to civil partnerships bill grant legal rights to gay couples will undermine marriage and civil partnerships bill must be strongly opposed by
• Telegraph: A huge step forward - Nicole Martin. Comments from those most affected: same-sex news and media partners.
• Telegraph | News - Sarah Womack, political correspondent. Reactions to the statement by Lady Morgan, the minister for women and equality, that she was considering introducing a nationwide register for same-sex partners to extend the pension and inheritance benefits that mar
• Observer: Gay couples win full rights to 'marriage' - Kamal Ahmed and Gaby Hinsliff. Under the Civil civil partnerships bill news and media Partnerships Bill to be published on 31 March civil partnerships bill news and media 2004, same-sex couples will be able to sign civil partnerships bill news and media a register held by the register office in civil partnerships bill news and media a procedure similar to a marriage.
• Telegraph: Gays to have the rights of married couples - Francis Elliott, deputy political editor. A review led by Barbara issues Roche, the minister responsible for equality issues, has concluded that issues gay couples should be allowed to register their relationships, conferring issues on them the same next-of-kin, property, and
• Guardian: Single-sex partnerships set to win property rights - Michael White, political editor. The government is poised to endorse news and media the concept of a civil partnership which will provide same-sex news and media couples with property rights and other benefits.
• Guardian: Equal rights plan for gay couples - Barbara Roche will be consulting over the summer on the civil partnerships bill complex practicalities of introducing partnership registration for gay couples, and civil partnerships bill it is thought that a short bill setting out the civil partnerships bill changes could be introduced in the next session of parliament. civil partnerships bill The
• Telegraph: Gay couples to get rights as 'civil partners' - George Jones, political editor. The Civil Partnership Bill news and media will allow gay and lesbian couples who register news and media to have new legal status as "civil partners" news and media and would acquire a package of rights and news and media responsibilities.
• BBC: Head to head: Gay equality - Ian Burford, actor who signed a London \\'partnership register\\' with issues Alexander Cannell, and Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute, issues give their reactions to ministers' plans for legally-recognised civil partnerships.
• Telegraph: Scottish law on gay marriages is ruled out - Tom Peterkin, Scotland political correspondent. Scottish ministers yesterday tried to avoid a repeat of the furore over Section 28 when they handed responsibility for legislation that will recognise homosexual marriages to Westminster.
• Telegraph: Rights for same-sex couples - Ministers will bring forward a consultation document on civil partnerships bill issues civil partnership to present to Parliament before the civil partnerships bill issues summer recess.
• Telegraph: Tory switch over legal rights for gay couples - George Jones, political editor. The Conservatives are preparing civil partnerships bill civil partnerships bill to demonstrate a shift to a more inclusive civil partnerships bill civil partnerships bill approach under Michael Howard\\'s leadership by allowing a civil partnerships bill civil partnerships bill free vote on legislation giving same-sex couples similar civil partnerships bill civil partnerships bill legal rights to married partnershi
• Guardian: Ever closer union - Leader. The government took a large stride in news and media the march towards a more equal society yesterday news and media by offering gays and lesbians the chance to news and media have a civil partnership, which confers the same news and media legal rights as a marriage.

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