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"Madam President, I was delighted that ILGA has rated the UK as the best country in Europe for respecting the human rights of LGBT people. I cannot claim that all of the credit for this belongs to the coalition government of the last two years, as we are of course building on previous work, Mr Cashman.
However, one clear new development which we are taking forward is equal marriage. I agree, of course, with Mr Busuttil that family marriage laws are a national responsibility, but there is an EU dimension when a gay married couple moves to another country where they lose their civil status and legal rights, including parental rights. But for all too many LGBT people in Europe, and even in the EU, the discrimination and prejudice they face is crudely homophobic, nasty and brutish, to the point not only of hate speech, but violence and murder.
I, like others, strongly welcome the support of the EPP under the leadership of Simon Busuttil for this resolution. The progress we have made in Britain is based on cross-party agreement. It is not so long ago that we had a law against the so-called promotion of homosexuality, known colloquially as ‘Section 28’, and now we are on the verge of equal marriage. Stuff happens, progress is possible."@en1
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