Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Rejected petition Keep the definition of marriage as between any two people of any sex or gender.

A recent petition to "define marriage as exclusively only between one man and one woman" has been noticed, and the importance of demonstrating that this is counter to the views of many reasonable British people must be stressed. These are the people.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/186376

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