Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

My Lords, I support Amendment 16 of the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, and I do so very much as...

My Lords, I also support the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege. As sh...

My Lords, I have some hesitation in following the three very able speakers, with all of whom I ha...

My Lords, I hope that the Government will listen to the points that have been made and recognise ...

My Lords, I understand that it might seem unfair to the right reverend Prelate, or to the noble B...

I do not think that the initiative for the quadruple lock came first from the Churches. Rather, i...

I will repeat my offer. I am really happy to work with the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of H...

My Lords, I, too, confess to having some sympathy with the amendment, particularly as diluted by ...

Am I correct in saying that it is not a question of a judge declining to sit on a particular case...

I do not believe that to be so.

I am not so sure about that. Those who arranged the judicial calendar did have some regard to que...

My Lords, I listened to this debate with great care. It is one of the most important we have had....

Surely there is not likely to be any situation in which a couple go to a registrar who is seated ...

If I may respond, that situation is really an exercise of emotion rather than fact. The likelihoo...

But you are left with the possibility. What happens in a rural area where there are not that many...

With the greatest respect, we are trying to get to the facts in all these debates. If I may say s...

But which is none the less possible.

I live in a rural area and I looked into this. In rural areas particularly, registrars work in te...

None the less, I return to the point: the noble Baroness wishes to put in legislation the potenti...

My Lords, can the noble Baroness explain what in this amendment makes her think that the scenario...

Because the potential exists for that to happen. To go back to some recent examples, what if, pri...

My Lords, it is clear from all these debates and amendments that the feelings on either side are ...

My Lords, I am pleased to support Amendment 16, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberleg...

My Lords, I shall be brief because I am sure that we want to hear from the Front Benches fairly s...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness and take up more time but I do not think that any of u...

I completely understand that but the examples given are relatively few. One of them is abortion a...

My Lords, I have listened to this debate with some concern because we have heard references to co...

My Lords, it is trespassing very close on bedtime too, so I will not take much of your Lordships’...

That is not true.

Heads are being shaken all around. I would like to hear.

I apologise for intervening. It is quite possible not be married by the registrar who you see in ...

The registrar they meet will be able to distinguish their gender and he will put that into the ma...

Why?

That is what the amendment would provide, which is what we are talking about. Let us not spend to...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Elton, is of course right. It is time we moved on and went home.