Clause 1 - Civil partnership
Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Ms Ann McKechin (Glasgow Maryhill, Labour)
Does the hon. Gentleman accept that a civil partnership is a voluntary agreement that people enter into freely as consenting adults and that they are fully aware of the consequences, as they would be if they were a heterosexual couple entering into a marriage that
includes not only rights, but responsibilities? Accordingly, I think that his argument is utterly spurious.