Responses to Civil Partnership:A framework for the legal recognition ...

2. Analysis of your responses83% of responses supported the principle of a civil partnership scheme 2 9Individuals2.1 Many hundreds of individuals responded to our proposal for a legal frameworkfor the recognition of same-sex couples.84% of individuals responding supported the principle of a civilpartnership scheme 3Campaigns2.2 Throughout the three months of consultation it was clear that variouscampaigns were run both in support of and in opposition to our overallproposal. The two largest, and most statistically significant, were those run byStonewall in support of civil partnership and by The Christian Institute inopposition to the proposal.Stonewall2.3 Stonewall ran a postcard and letter campaign in support of the proposals:• from Stonewall we received 681 postcards and letters;• from Stonewall Cymru (Wales) we received 279 signatures on petitions and58 postcards.Other2.4 We also received an independent petition from Wales, signed by 449 people,supporting the principle of a civil partnership scheme.22635 responses expressing support out of 3167 responses (2635/3167 * 100 = 83.2%).32493 responses expressing support out of 2975 responses (2493/2975 * 100 = 83.7%).