northern ireland gay marriage ban is state discrimination, court told /

Barrister says Northern Ireland stands out as backward-looking blot on the map’ because of repeated refusal to legislate for same-sex marriageNorthern Ireland’s ban on homosexual marriage suggests to the rest of the world a “backward-looking and divided” society, the tall court in Belfast has heard.
Two homosexual couples – Gráinne Close and Shannon Sickles and Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane – have been granted permission for a judicial review of the Northern Ireland assembly’s repeated refusal to legislate for homosexual marriage.
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Source: theguardian.com