News Bulletin 24 May 2013

MPs have voted to back David Cameron’s controversial Same-Sex Marriage Bill after its third reading this week, but the Prime Minister had to rely on a £4 billion lifeline from the Labour Party to save his plans — Tory Councillor Mary Douglas said that gay marriage is not a part of Conservative core values and Mr Cameron is out of step with his Party — The Prime Minister’s determination to redefine marriage has been branded a ‘crazy, vote-losing obsession’, an ’embarrassment’, and ‘bad politics’ by three national newspapers — The Coronation of the next monarch ‘will’ include other faiths along side Christianity for the first time — Lord Falconer has been challenged by former Health Minister Baroness Cumberlege over his “Assisted Dying Bill”, – saying there is no evidence for a change in the law — The Church of Scotland has voted to allow practicing homosexual men and women to become ministers — And three couples from Cumbria who got married at the same church on the same day, have all just celebrated their golden wedding anniversaries.