- Target:
- Stonewall
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.pinknews.co.uk
This petition has been closed.
On 20 September 2010 Ben Summerskill addressed an LGBT fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrats conference to argue against marriage equality. He argued that the cost of equality was too much to be justified even though the figures he quoted are largely disputed.
Full story: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/09/20/ben-summserskill-stonewall-opposed-to-gay-marriage-equality-because-it-will-cost-5-billion/
This does not represent the majority view of the LGBT community and therefore we feel that Ben Summerskill is not a suitable person to be leading Stonewall.
We, the undersigned, call on Ben Summerskill to accept that the majority of LGBTs and the majority of supportive heterosexuals believe that civil partnerships are a substandard to marriage equality.
He should either accept that and direct Stonewall to represent LGBT in the way they want to be represented or resign from his position and allow Stonewall to replace him with someone more in tune with the LGBT community.
The Marriage equality in the UK petition to Stonewall was written by Marcus Mansukhani and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.