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The legal case Hyde v Hyde and Woodmansee established the principle that ‘Marriage as understood in Christendom, may be defined as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others' [ttp://www.familylaw.co.uk/articles/hyde-v-hyde-defining-or-defending-marriage](ttp://www.familylaw.co.uk/articles/hyde-v-hyde-defining-or-defending-marriage)
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The Nullity of Marriage Act explicitly outlaws marriage between two people who are not a man and a woman http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1972.tb01319.x/asset/j.1468-2230.1972.tb01319.x.pdf?v=1&t=huwlsfq5&s=10ee04500c79e0b1645fa30876088b723e448fdb
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone introduces the London Partnership Register to offer recognition to same sex couples in the capital http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1339673/Gay-couples-make-their-love-official.html
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The Civil Partnership Act </a>receives royal assent, allowing gay couples across the UK to enter legally recognised unions for the first time [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4530803.stm](<a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4530803.stm)
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Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, who married in Canada in 2003, fail in their legal bid to have their marriage recognised in the UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5230708.stm
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Government launches a consultation on the introduction of equal marriage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22605011
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BNP leader Nick Griffin tells a student newspaper that “children will die” if gay marriage is introduced http://www.leedsstudent.org/2012/10/26/leeds-student-speaks-to-nick-griffin-leader-of-the-bnp/
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The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill passes its third reading in the House of Commons, paving the way for the first gay weddings to take place in 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22605011
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Culture Secretary Maria Miller announces that same sex weddings can take place from March https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-same-sex-weddings-to-happen-from-29-march-2014
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MSPs vote for same sex marriage to be introduced in Scotland
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First same sex weddings take place in England and Wales
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