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2nd November 2015
08:16pm GMT

According to The Guardian, Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice, said same-sex couples getting married was a “perverse definition” of marriage, and that the gay marriage equality campaign was a “worked-up phoney demand for rights”.
Arguing in favour of same-sex marriage, Sinn Féin’s Daithí McKay advised the assembly that three Ulster counties in the Republic of Ireland “all said yes to marriage equality”, while recent opinion polls in Northern Ireland saw 68% of people were in favour of a change to the law.
The move means that Northern Ireland is now the only part of the UK and Ireland where gay couples cannot legally marry.Explore more on these topics: