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Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Discrimination: LGBT (18 June 2013)

Sarah Champion: What steps the UK is taking with its international partners to prevent discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Committee (1st Day) (Continued) (17 June 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Baroness Barker: ...of the principle that she invites us to accept. I thought that was very, very telling. Going back to the points I made earlier today, I defend the right of religious organisations not to like gay people, and to treat gay people differently. I defend their right to do that. I do not defend the right of individual public servants to determine the level of service given to a member of the...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Committee (1st Day) (17 June 2013) See 25 other results from this debate

Baroness Stowell of Beeston: ...of sexual conduct and practices, in so far as those two topics are linked. For example, my noble friend Lady Barker referred to the demonstration in Brighton by a church on the day of the Gay Pride march. If the church wanted to demonstrate against same-sex marriage, it would be perfectly lawful. This amendment makes that clear. However, let me at the same time be absolutely clear and...

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — Question for Short Debate (4 June 2013)

Lord Fowler: ...in particular because of my second point. What stands in the way of so much progress in these areas is stigma and discrimination. A further effort is most certainly required there. Stigma infects gay and lesbian people, those with HIV and those with TB. It means that many people around the world are reluctant to come forward for testing. A vaccine would cut through all that. It is...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (2nd Day) (4 June 2013) See 19 other results from this debate

Lord Dear: ...about the whole institution of marriage, taking into account, if you like, civil partnerships for both heterosexuals and homosexuals, because the issue is too important for all sections of society, gay or straight, to be introduced on a whim and handled in so cavalier a fashion. How can we refuse a Second Reading? Rather, I ask noble Lords: how can we allow it to proceed? I ask your...

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.

Written Answers — Health: Blood: Donors (4 June 2013)

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the potential effects of lifting the 12-month ban on gay men donating blood; and whether he has had discussions with counterparts in the devolved Administrations on this issue.

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (Continued) (3 June 2013) See 27 other results from this debate

Lord Flight: ...that, what marriage means will understandably upset a large number of people. The knock-on effects of the Bill have also not been adequately considered. If the Bill proceeds, the legal status of gay marriage will be different from that of heterosexual marriage, as the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury and the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Exeter have pointed out. It...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (3 June 2013) See 11 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 8 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 8 other results from this debate

Mike Freer: I raised that question because of the anomaly that a gay man or a straight man joining the pension scheme will pay contributions at the same rate but receive different benefits, which is discrimination.

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations (21 May 2013) See 5 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 11 other results from this debate

Tom Harris: ...something that was not as good as marriage, because politically we did not feel we could get it at that time. We did so for the best reasons possible and it was a huge step forward, not just for gay couples but for the whole nation. I am extremely proud to have voted for that legislation, but let us be honest about what civil partnerships were. They fell short of marriage—they were...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 1 — Education Act 1996 (20 May 2013) See 12 other results from this debate

Chris Bryant: ...to the chilling effect of what they call “political correctness” and of this kind of legislation. I say simply that if they look around the world and listen to the experiences of many gay and lesbian children in schools, they will see that hateful speech is alive and well. That is why a gay or lesbian child is six times more likely to commit suicide than a heterosexual child....

Mental Health (16 May 2013)

Diane Abbott: ...in the Chamber in our lifetimes. There is much to be concerned about in mental health trends. For instance, there is a rise in mental health issues among young people. Fully half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youngsters are self-harming. As I have said, there is a relationship between an economic downturn and a rise in suicides of men under the age of 35. None the less, there...

Business of the House (16 May 2013)

Angela Eagle: ...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 thank the Leader of the House for making two days available for Report and Third Reading....

Northern Ireland Assembly: Oral Answers to Questions: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill (14 May 2013)

Sue Ramsey: ...I thank the Minister for outlining that for us.  Minister, given that you and, indeed, a lot of your party members talk about parity, do you agree that there is a possibility that, by not ensuring that gay couples have similar rights to what is being proposed in England, your Department — not you — could be open to legal challenge on this policy?

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: ...emphasise that there has not been any proper consultation, any proper research, any proper mature reflection and any account of public opinion. My opposition to the Bill is most definitely not anti-gay. I dedicated much of my life in the public service to the protection and enhancement of minority rights and securing equality under the law, including the protection of homosexual rights and...

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....