Stonewall were against some aspects of proposed leglislation
of same sex marriage at that time. I believe quite a few gay and lesbian people were for that legislation.
Regarding the Baroness
I think there is a danger when discussing legislation to make over simplified comments such as ‘she was against same sex marriage’. And she was ‘against abortion’.
She was against the wording of the legislation but not against same sex marriage as such. She has explained this.
A particular poster was trying to discredit the Baroness on the abortion voting issue. There was some background to the wording of the legislation there too. If you took the time to read the discussions around her voting history, she has supported abortion before that bill and since. I would go back to find my post on another thread where a similar claim was made against her, explaining it but advanced search is useless at the moment so I won’t bother. (And that poster never acknowledged they were woefully wrong , they never can back to the thread and soon name changed)
Posters who are attempting to discredit the life long work of the Baroness, which includes being a long time director of Save the Children and establishing the AMAR Foundation, plus representing women’s and children’s rights and supporting victims of violence, trafficking etc at European level, probably should consider whether the ‘gotchas’ they are pull in off twitter are quite the gotchas they think.
The reality is, this Baroness has been supporting women and children for most of her 80+ years. She is supportive of lesbians, she is supportive of trans people or whatever you want to try to use to denounce her.
She has a long career of making laws at UK and European level. She takes the time to consider all aspects of those laws and is particularly conscious of where conflicts that can impact on another group’s rights can occur.
Why do posters want laws to pass that have unintended conflicts on others? Just so that someone can try to ascribe false motivations to them? Bizarre when you think of it.
If posters actually cared about her reasons and are not just trying to demonize her, why don’t you contact her and ask her why she has done or said what she has done or said in the past. She answers emails and letters that are not abusive and is very honest and up front about her past decisions.
or …. are posters just trying to score quick wins with what they found on Twitter that end up making them look foolish.