Schedule 4 - Effect on marriage
Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Mr Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
My hon. Friend makes a further good point. The more we consider and debate this issue, the more we could find further reasons to view sympathetically the amendments and the new clause.
I say to the Minister that the issue will not go away. There is nothing malicious about this; I genuinely see it as an attempt to give balance to the Bill. Everyone has rights. People of faith have rights and faith organisations have rights, and by their very nature
they are different from the state and from secular society. I hope that there will be a genuine acknowledgement of that point by the Minister—if not now, when the Bill is debated on Report.
Debate adjourned.—[Ms Bridget Prentice.]
Adjourned accordingly at twenty-eight minutes past five o'clock till Tuesday 16 March at half-past Nine o'clock.