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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Committee (1st Day) (17 June 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

Lord Singh of Wimbledon: ...grounds of religion and belief. However, anyone who has read about the cases that have come to court will know that it has not always, to date, protected people with strong religious beliefs about marriage. It is not easy to stand up for your beliefs against the might of arrogant and sometimes ignorant authority. It is not easy to risk your career prospects and your family’s...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (2nd Day) (4 June 2013) See 10 other results from this debate

Lord Dear: ...8217; House who have spoken, and in particular those who have offered such steadfast support to me, both before and during the debate. I am very grateful. As has just been confirmed, this is a free vote, and Peers across the House have supported my amendment. All of them recognise that it should not be a matter for party politics but a matter of principle. It is interesting how in the...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (Continued) (3 June 2013) See 18 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 3 other results from this debate

Baroness Brinton: ...societal attitudes towards homosexuality have moved on over the past 60 years. It was brought home to me five years ago when my husband and I celebrated our silver wedding anniversary and two close gay friends invited us to their civil partnership, with a date chosen to mark 25 years of their private commitment to one another. Over that 25-year period they have been harassed and attacked,...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Caroline Lucas: So much has been said about same-sex marriage over the past couple of days. It is important on the occasion of Third Reading to return to the fundamental principle that underpins what we are trying to achieve. That principle is equality. Ultimately, this is about basic human rights. Nobody should be denied on the basis of their sexuality the opportunity to be legally married. We are righting...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage (21 May 2013)

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)

Geraint Davies: ...happy to wake up with David Cameron. On the serious point—there is a serious point—I realise that the hon. Gentleman is making a genuine point about the need for absolute equality in marriage and civil partnership and asking why, if that is not happening, we do not have civil union. I see the logic of that, but I was simply making the case that in practice, if that came in now...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 16 — Review of civil partnership (20 May 2013) See 4 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 3 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...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord Rennard: ...lifelong commitment to opposing unfair discrimination in all its forms. In the debate on the gracious Speech a year ago, I welcomed changes to the Government’s original plans for registering voters. I had a very major hand in bringing about fundamental changes to the draft legislation. I noted earlier the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Basildon, and I hope that she will...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [Ist Day] (8 May 2013)

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....

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 4 - Opt-in: marriage in places of worship (5 March 2013)

Tim Loughton: ...set out some of the factions within various organisations that have already given rise to disputes. We know that within the small number of Churches that have said that they will carry out same-sex marriages there are voices insisting, “Not in my name.” Those voices say that the governing body does not speak for the rank and file. From the opposite perspective, it is apparent...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 2 - Marriage according to religious rites: no compulsion to solemnize etc. (5 March 2013)

Tim Loughton: ..., Catholic or not, placed children with single people rather than couples. There was a preference for married couples being adopters, but children were being placed with single people who were gay. We will not relive the infamous debate we had over that in 2001. The practical point about the Catholic adoption agencies—this is a tragedy in the interpretation of the Equality...

Prayers: Human Rights Act 1998 (Repeal and Substitution) Bill (1 March 2013)

Rory Stewart: ...has made, which is an important one, is fundamentally about triviality. Lord Hoffmann may be suggesting that although at a theoretical level it may be possible to resolve whether prisoners should vote, as a practical point, the issue does not really matter. It is subsidiary—that is, it should be left to individual countries—because it is just too disruptive to the international...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 2 - Marriage according to religious rites: no compulsion to solemnize etc (28 February 2013) See 1 other result from this clause

Tim Loughton: ...freedom of all individuals to make choices according to their conscience within the law and respects the government’s efforts to improve education in this country. In the light of the recent vote in the House of Commons which passed the Same-sex Marriage Bill, HighLight is writing, on  behalf of many teachers and parents who have spoken to us, to ask the Committee to consider...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 1 - Extension of marriage to same sex couples (26 February 2013)

Chris Bryant: ...her “gold standard” argument seemed to be based on the fact that she would, in all honesty, prefer to abolish civil partnerships, pretend they had never existed and go forward with same-sex marriage. However, that is not possible, because there are inconvenient people, such as myself, who are in civil partnerships, and we might not want to be in a same-sex marriage—we...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 1 - Extension of marriage to same sex couples (26 February 2013)

Chris Bryant: ..., so he cannot really move, or even propose, both of them. My guess is that he considers them probing amendments. He said several times, and Committee members have said it too, that the purpose of marriage has never changed and that it has always fundamentally been the same. I wholeheartedly disagree with that proposition. For many centuries, as has been said, the purpose of...

Succession to the Crown Bill — Second Reading (14 February 2013)

Lord Deben: ...days to which the right reverend Prelate referred have gone-but we are as much citizens of this country as anyone else. If we are going to right the inequalities, we should recognise that. I shall vote later on, against many of my co-religionists, in favour of righting an anomaly which I think exists as far as gay marriage is concerned. It is an insult to every loyal Catholic that we still...

Public Bill Committee: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Examination of Witnesses (14 February 2013)

Craig Parr: First of all, I think that it starts from the top, so the Children’s Minister should have voted for equal marriage in Parliament because that would have sent messages to other people. I commend the Conservative Government for bringing through this legislation, but that is where it should start. For example, I was having this debate with my year 7 form group yesterday. I...