Committee (1st Day)

Part of Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill – in the House of Lords at 5:00 pm on 17 June 2013.

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Photo of Baroness Butler-Sloss Baroness Butler-Sloss Crossbench 5:00, 17 June 2013

The declaration of sexuality would be relevant only at the moment of marriage. It would not be relevant to everybody else who meets them or knows it. They will be married. Perhaps the most important point made by the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, was about children. If we have marriage and same-sex marriage, so far as the children are concerned, it is marriage. They will say, “My parents are married”. It seems to me that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern—