Backbench Business — Church of England (Women Bishops)

Part of Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 5:20 pm on 12 December 2012.

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Photo of Ben Bradshaw Ben Bradshaw Labour, Exeter 5:20, 12 December 2012

Yes, there are all sorts of anomalies in the legislation that was presented yesterday, but today is not the time to debate those. We will have plenty of opportunity to do so. It is interesting that the Church of England was asking for Parliament to protect it from itself, so to speak, over equal marriage, yet it is still rather resistant, as things stand, to our helping it to legislate on something that its says it wants to do but so far has not been capable of delivering for itself.