Jan 29 - ERG Hails The “Arrival Of A Constituency”
The Equality Rights Group Chairman, Felix Alvarez, has expressed his “most heartfelt gratitude for the solidarity” offered by Unite, NASUWT GTA, and GGCA and the “many supporters, allies and members of the public who have rallied around” the group’s One Civil Marriage Law For All Campaign.
Mr Alvarez said: “The truth is that, out on the streets, the reaction has been easy and overwhelming support on this issue.
“With this Campaign, the well-organised teamwork and machinery of ERG and the LGBT community has been demonstrated once and for all. It signals the arrival, coming-of-age and maturity of a political constituency demanding equality and human rights that ERG has worked so hard to establish. It also demonstrates how important it is to have an effective, organized voice of solidarity for civil society in Gibraltar.
“We thank our teams of volunteers and allies who have worked so hard for the excellent results obtained at such short notice, with thousands of supporting letters and votes having been received in a very short period of time.
“We understand that fundamental Equality and Human Rights are non-negotiable throughout Society and certainly within the Union movement, but that certain GGCA members may be in disconcert with that principle of unqualified support. ERG is not competent to interfere in that Union’s internal debates, but we are grateful for their past support, and trust in the good judgement of its President, Wendy Cummings, and her Executive in taking the matter further. Not least because the Union’s own LGBT members deserve the full and unreserved official support of their organisation/
“With the end of the Command Paper consultation stage, we now await Government’s decision, whilst calibrating and gauging our own responses in accordance with developments.”
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