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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Committee (1st Day) (Continued) (17 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord Dear: If I may respond, that situation is really an exercise of emotion rather than fact. The likelihood of a registrar suddenly seeing a gay couple in front of them and turning on his or her heel and walking away is so fanciful as to be almost ludicrous. I would expect to find that people signal their objection before the likelihood occurs. A registrar in this position would signal that, from a...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Committee (1st Day) (17 June 2013) See 21 other results from this debate

Baroness Stowell of Beeston: ...in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Dear, seems to be aimed at addressing concerns aired here and in the other place that public authorities might overreact to expressions of belief in traditional marriage. This was raised by the noble Lord, Lord Anderson. Not only would the amendment require public authorities to treat people fairly but it would impose a specific duty in respect of this...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (2nd Day) (4 June 2013) See 18 other results from this debate

Lord Dear: ...us agree that this is an issue of profound interest and importance and one that will affect every member of our society. We cannot escape the fact that the Bill will completely alter the concept of marriage as we know it. The most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury and the right reverend Prelates, the Bishop of Leicester, the Bishop of Chester and the Bishop of Exeter, the noble...

Energy Bill: Clause 1 — Decarbonisation (4 June 2013)

Tim Yeo: ..., the Church of Scotland, the Methodist Church, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the United Reform Church and the Quakers in Britain. I mention the Churches because, in the recent debate on gay marriage, I found myself on the opposite side from most of those organisations, and I am delighted to be allied with them on this issue.

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (Continued) (3 June 2013) See 25 other results from this debate

Lord Flight: ...is absolutely divided. I do not know whether it is 70% one way or the other or if it is 50/50, but it is clear that, in the main, the senior part of the country believes in the traditional role of marriage and wishes to keep it, while a lot of younger people think that it is all a load of hooey and ask, basically, why anyone should get married. There is an absolute divide, and in this sort...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (3 June 2013) See 10 other results from this debate

Lord Harries of Pentregarth: ...of homosexuality is undoubtedly the biggest social change of my lifetime. My own change and understanding came about when I realised—for example, through reading the biographies of gay people—that often, from a very early age, they had found themselves predominantly attracted to members of their own sex, not just physically but as whole persons. While some people are bisexual...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013) See 4 other results from this debate

Julian Huppert: ...Speaker. On the Liberal Democrat Benches, we believe that the state should not bar a couple who love each other from marrying just because of their gender or sexuality, whether they are straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or whatever, and that the state should not ban groups who wish to conduct same-sex marriages from doing so. This is an important day, and it is a day...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage (21 May 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

Tobias Ellwood: ...anticipate the Bill and its amendments. I am pleased that we have this opportunity to conduct this debate, which has prompted us to think about the wider issues of the role, purpose and values of marriage in our society. We are debating amendments relating to gender recognition and so forth, which has educated us about the historic role of the state in respect of the Church. The Bible is...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations (21 May 2013) See 4 other results from this debate

Simon Hughes: Does the Minister not accept, however, that there are many people who believe that the civil status of coming together in marriage should be open to straight and gay couples alike, but that people of faith and faith groups should be free to define what they understand as marriage? Some of them would permit same-sex marriage, but some of them take a different view and would not.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 16 — Review of civil partnership (20 May 2013) See 10 other results from this debate

Tom Harris: ...issue with his arguments—I am not yet convinced, but I am happy to support new clause 16 as amended. When we legislated in this House 10 years ago, we stopped short of legalising same-sex marriage for the simple reason that it was considered a step too far. We did not legislate for civil partnerships because we had arrived at a perfect alternative institution to marriage. We stopped...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 1 — Education Act 1996 (20 May 2013) See 7 other results from this debate

Chris Bryant: ...views. Some have said that the Church used to support slavery and that it no longer does. A better analogy might be the Church’s attitude to the role of women and, for that matter, women in marriage 100 years ago, compared with its views today. For those who have a strong a religious bent, I note that the Church of Scotland has voted today to allow homosexual clergy. I think that...

Business of the House (16 May 2013)

Angela Eagle: ...re-election without an election as Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, which is to her enormous credit. Next week the House will return, albeit briefly, to debate the remaining stages of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. This will ensure that the historic progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality accomplished by the previous Government will be consolidated. I...

Health and Social Care (13 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Eric Ollerenshaw: ...of the hon. Member for Bradford East (Mr Ward) in talking about social care, which I too should like to remark on. Unlike others, I will not be tempted into the subjects of tobacco, Europe or gay marriage but will stick fundamentally to the title of this debate on health and social care. I have a few specific points to make about the impact on my constituency. In general, though, I am...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

Lord Dear: ...or simply ignored. Today, as your Lordships have concluded, we have an elephant of significant proportions in this Chamber, as the Government appear unable to speak its name. It is, of course, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, which is now in its last stages in the House of Commons and which, we must conclude, will pass to your Lordships’ House in the next few weeks. I pose the...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [Ist Day] (8 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Edward Miliband: .... That is certainly his pedigree. He was a councillor at 26 and the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Bristol aged 28. The hon. Gentleman made reference to the fact that he was the first openly gay Liberal Democrat MP. I say to all right hon. and hon. Members that anybody who wants instruction on the reason for the Government’s Bill on same-sex marriage should read the hon....

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Commons Reasons and Amendments (22 April 2013)

Lord Deben: ...considerable importance. The noble Baroness will ask me later on-not, I fear, at Second Reading because I will be unavoidably in the United States, but thereafter-to support the concept of allowing gay people to get married. I happen to believe that is right. My view is that there is a difference between Christian marriage, which I uphold entirely, the Catholic teaching on that, which I...

[Albert Owen in the Chair] — British Sikh Community (13 March 2013)

Gareth Johnson: Forgive me, but I will not concentrate on the issue of gay marriage today. We have had that debate in the main Chamber. I certainly pay tribute, however, to the existence of common political ground between various religions; it is heartening to see those two religions working together for a common interest.

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 - Sanctions against clergy (prohibition) (12 March 2013) See 1 other result from this clause

Stephen Gilbert: ...few thoughts on the record. To my hon. Friends the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham and the Member for Enfield, Southgate, who have tabled the new clause, I say that we should not forget that gay and lesbian people pay for our public services. Gay and lesbian people use our public services, and gay and lesbian people work in our public services. Very brave gay and lesbian people serve...

Commonwealth and Commonwealth Charter — Motion to Take Note (7 March 2013)

Lord Watson of Invergowrie: ...intolerance of homosexuality in a number of Commonwealth countries ... and the FCO reported that it had recently found it necessary to raise concerns about the possible criminalisation of same-sex marriage in Nigeria and the human rights of homosexual people in Cameroon". The language used was guarded and the report gave no suggestion that the Committee had pursued this fundamental issue...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 10 - Extra-territorial matters (7 March 2013)

Kate Green: ...raise issues in relation to Scotland. I want to ask the Minister about the situation whereby the legislation in England had been passed, but the Scottish Parliament had not yet enacted for same-sex marriages in Scotland. We must therefore envisage at least a short delay whereby same-sex marriages are valid under the law of England and Wales, but not under that of Scotland. As members of...