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In 1999, 216 MPs upheld traditional marriage definition

On June 8, 1999 the House of Commons passed a Reform Party supply day motion moved by former Reform MP Eric Lowther upholding that "marriage is and should remain the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, and that Parliament will take all necessary steps within the jurisdi...

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