Could the coalition be CANCELLED? Over 500,000 sign petition to BLOCK Tory-DUP government
AN ONLINE petition against the Conservatives and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) forming a government has gathered more than 500,000 signatures.
By SIMON OSBORNE
Express.co.uk
Sat, Jun 10, 2017
The DUP is accused of being a “dangerous group” on the petition webpage which strongly criticises the party’s attitudes towards the LGBT community.
The party’s stance on abortion, the death penalty and the teaching of creationism as scientific fact were also condemned.
Northern Ireland is the only area of the UK where same-sex marriages are not legal and the DUP used a controversial “petition of concern” to veto its legalisation in 2016.
The country’s largest political party has been repeatedly at odds with the region’s LGBT community.
While the party insists it is protecting the “traditional” definition of marriage, critics have denounced its stance as homophobic.
Former first minister Peter Robinson’s wife Iris, who was an MP at the time, once described homosexuality as an “abomination”, while the MP son of Dr Paisley, Ian Paisley Jr, said he felt “repulsed” by homosexual acts.
A party councillor in Ballymena reportedly claimed Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,500 people in the US, was God’s revenge for New Orleans hosting an annual gay pride event.
In the 2015 general election campaign, DUP health minister Jim Wells resigned amid a controversy about remarks he made about same sex couples.
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