Lyra McKee`s partner challenges UK government on same-sex marriage
(WorldNews Politics)

The partner of murdered Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee has challenged Theresa May´s government to ignore the objections of the Democratic Unionist party and impose marriage equality on the region. At a mass rally in central Belfast on Saturday, Sara Canning said the prime minister should introduce legislation at Westminster to allow LGBTQ couples to get married in Northern Ireland, in order to be true to McKee´s memory. Canning told several thousand demonstrators at Belfast City Hall that equal marriage was `not an Orange and Green issue` - referring to the Protestant and Catholic communities of Northern Ireland - and that its implementation in the region should not be seen as a...