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Wed 07 Jul 2009Civil Partnership Bill will create second-class marriage - Amnesty
THE GOVERNMENT’S proposed Civil Partnership Bill will create “a second-class form of marriage for what the Government clearly feels is a second-class group of people”, according to Amnesty International.
The executive director of the organisation’s Irish section, Colm O’Gorman, said the failure of the Bill to legislate for the children of gay couples was “cowardly”.
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