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02/08/2016
Scottish Conservative Party Leader To Deliver Speech At Belfast Pride
Scottish Conservative Party leader Ruth Davidson is to give a lecture on marriage equality as part of the Belfast Pride Festival.
Ms Davidson, who recently got engaged to her partner Jen Wilson, said she was "honoured" to be asked to give a speech.
She said: "As a practising Christian, a protestant and a unionist who is engaged to a Catholic Irishwoman, for me, equal marriage isn't about one religion, country or community.
"It is about people in Northern Ireland being afforded the same rights as everybody else.
"Scotland is a better place today because of equal marriage and I want to take that positive message from our experiences here to Belfast and beyond."
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage is banned.
(CD/LM)
Ms Davidson, who recently got engaged to her partner Jen Wilson, said she was "honoured" to be asked to give a speech.
She said: "As a practising Christian, a protestant and a unionist who is engaged to a Catholic Irishwoman, for me, equal marriage isn't about one religion, country or community.
"It is about people in Northern Ireland being afforded the same rights as everybody else.
"Scotland is a better place today because of equal marriage and I want to take that positive message from our experiences here to Belfast and beyond."
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage is banned.
(CD/LM)
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Northern Ireland will soon endorse same-sex marriage as public support overwhelms opposition to it, according to the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. Ruth Davidson, who is openly gay, was delivering a speech at The Mac in Belfast on Tuesday as part of the Belfast Pride celebrations.
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Northern Ireland will soon endorse same-sex marriage as public support overwhelms opposition to it, according to the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. Ruth Davidson, who is openly gay, was delivering a speech at The Mac in Belfast on Tuesday as part of the Belfast Pride celebrations.
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