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The House of Lords have voted in support of Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, rejecting a “wrecking bill” amendment proposed by Lord Dear.
Cross-bench peer Lord Dear was vocal in his opposition to the bill, and made clear his issues with the gradual redefinition of the word “gay” over recent decades. Other peers have voiced fears that amending the tradition of marriage would lead to polygamy and incest, with more than 90 peers speaking on the bill during the two-day session.
Nonetheless, in a free vote the a majority of 242 peers rejected Lord Dear’s “wrecking bill”, with 390 votes to 148, another small political step towards approving same sex marriage by next summer.
The news was met with cheers from equal rights supporters outside the Lords.
The bill, if passed, would allow same sex couples, who can currently form civil partnerships, to marry. It would not, however, force religious institutions to offer “gay weddings”, as they would need to “opt in”. The Church of England and Church in Wales will also be banned from offering such services.
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Hi,
Lords Support Plans for Gay Marriage. My lords my lords please do not forsaken us. Having nothing against Gay’s but having concern on
the way Gay’s think and the effect on society could have detrimental effects.
First Gay Marriage’s next Gay adoptions and then Gay’s cloning their own children. The German foreign minister and the major of Berlin are openly Gay and their political behaviors is apparent not to mention the sexually violent deputy speaker of parliament. If you look at nature homosexuality as we know it, in nature is nonexistent, on the contrary in a Zoo one see’s homosexuality indication humans live in a human zoo. Be it the cages of humanity family value must be retained a mother and a father for their children.