Buckingham Palace has been given a giant card calling for soon-to-be married couple Prince William and Kate Middleton to support marriage equality.

The huge card reads: “Congratulations William and Kate on your Wedding Day. We wish you a happy life together. You can get married, gay people can’t. We are banned by law. We ask you to support marriage equality. Equal=Love”


The card was handed into Buckingham Palace by a large group of supporters lead by Human Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the Equal Love campaign.

“As well as wishing the royal couple happiness, our card highlighted the fact that William and Kate can marry, but same-sex couples cannot,” Tatchell told 
Pinknews.co.uk.

“In democratic society, we should all be equal before the law. The ban on gay marriage is discrimination and should be repealed.”

He said the giant card stunt was an attention-grabbing success: “The public response was amazingly supportive. Everyone outside the palace expressed support for marriage equality. We didn’t get a single negative reaction.

“William and Kate are a modern young couple. They have gay friends. I am sure they would not wish them to be discriminated against. Denying gay people the right to marry is unjust discrimination.

“We are urging the royal couple to find a way, within official protocol, to indicate their support for marriage equality. If they did this, they’d be the first royal couple to do so.”
 


Fingers crossed. Prince William and Kate Middleton are in a public position where they can not only show their support but also bring public awareness to the simple human right of marriage equality.

I guess only time will tell, but in the meantime we’ll just settle for the “overkill” that is the media coverage of the royal wedding.