We’re very happy to report that the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) met at the weekend to choose their national campaign for this year, and chose Marriage Equality – to allow same-sex couples to marry, and extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.

This campaign will be the main focus of the SYP’s political activity until March 2012. You can read more on the SYP website here:

In the Scottish Parliament, SNP MSP Marco Biagi (Edinburgh Central) lodged a motion welcoming the SYP’s decision:

• S4M-00276 Marco Biagi: Scottish Youth Parliament to Campaign for Marriage Equality—That the Parliament celebrates its long and close working relationship with the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP); notes that the SYP represents young people aged 14 to 25 from all across Scotland; further notes that, at its annual general meeting on 11-12 June 2011, the SYP chose to make marriage equality for same-sex couples its priority campaign for the coming year; awaits the opportunity for what it considers to be the wide range of views held on this subject to be expressed when the Scottish Government formally launches its consultation, and encourages the SYP, as part of its campaign, to play a full and proper role in this process.

The motion has so far been supported by SNP MSPs Bob Doris, Rob Gibson, Mike MacKenzie, Kevin Stewart, David Torrance and Maureen Watt, Labour MSP John Park, and Green MSPs Patrick Harvie and Alison Johnstone.

If you would like to contact your own MSPs to ask them to support motion S4M-00276, you can do that from the Scottish Parliament website. Enter your postcode, click on each MSP’s name, and then click on Contact details to find their email address and phone number.