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Obama on gay marriage – a money-spinning electoral gamble
It’s already brought money flowing into his campaign coffers, but what will be the political fallout of President Obama’s decision to back gay marriage?
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British National Party leader Nick Griffin was strongly criticised today after tweeting the address of a gay couple who had earlier won a court case against a christian bed and breakfast owner.
Exclusive: David Cecil, who faces two years in a Ugandan prison for producing a play about homosexuality, tells Channel 4 News sending him to jail would be “quite crazy”.
Marriage in English law is still a fundamentally heterosexual activity: “The union of one man, with one woman, voluntarily entered into for life.” The Church of England happens to think it should stay that way.
The Church of England says it could be forced to stop conducting weddings on behalf of the state if same-sex marriage is legalised.
Psychotherapist Lesley Pilkington loses her appeal against suspension from her professional body over a therapy session with a journalist who posed as a christian wanting to be “cured” of being gay.
It’s already brought money flowing into his campaign coffers, but what will be the political fallout of President Obama’s decision to back gay marriage?
After just weeks in the job, Richard Grenell suddenly resigns as Mitt Romney’s foreign affairs spokesman – after a backlash from social conservatives about his sexuality.
Transport for London tells Channel 4 News it banned an advert which suggests gay people can be converted to heterosexuality because it was “offensive”.
The government has launched a public consultation over plans to allow same sex couples to marry, while insisting it is not a question of whether the law is changed, but when.
Catholics are being urged to protect the “true meaning” of matrimony as a letter from two senior archbishops is read in 2,500 churches arguing against government plans for gay marriage.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, one of Britain’s most prominent Catholics, issues a fierce attack on proposals for gay marriage, calling them a “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right”.
As Glasgow’s Catholic archbishop questions plans in Scotland and the UK to allow full marriage rights to same-sex couples, Channel 4 News debates the issues surrounding gay marriage.
As a record number of seven candidates are selected to run for Irish presidency, Carl Dinnen profiles the top nominees.
As the US military lifts its ban on openly homosexual people, Channel 4 News speaks to an officer who was discharged for being gay and a serving Air Force captain forced to hide his sexuality.
A lifetime ban stopping men who have sex with other men from giving blood will be relaxed from November in England, Scotland and Wales.