Foster letter ‘urged bar on Northern Irish same-sex couples converting partnerships to full marriages in Scotland’The row over the Democratic Unionist party’s stance on gay rights has deepened after it was alleged that the Northern Irish party’s leader,Arlene Foster, tried to restrict Scotland’s gay marriage laws. It has emerged that Foster, or while a minister in the Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont,wrote to the Scottish government in 2015 asking ministers in Edinburgh to bar same-sex couples from Northern Ireland from converting their civil partnerships into full marriages. Related: DUP will expect Theresa May for a deal that keeps paying out | Alan Travis I said no. Related: Northern Ireland under pressure after Irish gay marriage referendum win Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com