- Miller doesn't understand that secondary/incidental changes to marriage law doesn't change timeless core of marriage = heterosexual
- Miller quotes opinion of QCs Kennedy, Lester and Pannick. Unconvincing: they're the usual suspects from the pro-gay/anti-family lobby.
- No mention in Miller's introductory speech of the unique reason why society privileges marriage: protection of children, born & unborn
- Lot of fluffiness from rad fem Yvette Cooper re confetti, biscuits, parties, rubber chickens etc. Just killed her PM ambitions, one hopes.
- Repeated confusion btwn benefits of marriage (commitment, stability) and nature of marriage (complementary union ordered towards children)
- Mention of books written for children promoting gay relationships. Coming to a school near you if marriage (& thus family) redefined.
- Yvette Cooper warns anti-SSM churches that "religious freedom goes both ways". Must not prevent state from redefining marriage.
- Yvette Cooper confuses legal reforms of practice of marriage with false idea that core of marriage (i.e. heterosexual) can change.
- Discredited Marxist theory of social change being used to justify what even the original Marxists didn't dream of (gay marriage).
- Robert Flello MP: Marriage more than just love & commitment. Gay marriage redefines everyone's marriage by reducing it to a relationship.
- Steve Gilbert MP defames upholders of marriage status quo as "those who would hoard privilege". More souped-up Marxist ramblings.
- Sir Roger Gale MP: assurances that civil partnerships would not lead to same-sex marriage have been broken.
- Natascha Engel MP: gay couples can raise children just as well as straight couples. Thus fathers and mothers are just interchangeable carers
- Nick Herbert MP also confuses reforms of secondary aspects of marriage law with abolishing fundamental nature & purpose of marriage
- Stephen Doughty MP implied that it was the state's prerogative to extend marriage. But marriage doesn't belong to the state.
- Edward Leigh MP: we must be careful to ensure that law and reality do not conflict. Gay marriage bill tries to change essence of marriage.
- Gay marriage bill is not evolution but revolution, says Edward Leigh MP. Marriage exists for sake of children. Not just for love or sex.
- Pro-SSM MPs rattled that their seats now in danger at the next election. We like rattling.
- Jim Shannon MP: letters against gay marriage = largest mail-bag I've received in all my years as MP and MLA.
- Simon Hughes MP used Lincoln film to draw historical lesson re gay marriage. He needs to read real history not the Hollywood spin.
- Craig Whittaker MP: marriage already being eroded so state shouldn't be making situation worse by changing nature of marriage
- Stephen Timms: marriage exists for children but SSM bill barely mentions children.
- Gay relationships are not the same as marriage, they are different, says Stephen Timms MP.
- Clear implication of Fiona Mactaggart MP interjection is that gay marriage will redefine the family by redefining marriage
- Not exactly the most intelligent or original speech being given by Emma Reynolds MP re gay marriage
- John Glen MP: received incredible vitriol simply for upholding marriage as it is.
- David Lammy MP repeating his low-quality performance back during the Mental Capacity Bill. Comparing anti-SSM to racism. What a bore.
- Chris Bryant MP conspicuously omits Book of Common Prayer text: "First, [marriage] was ordained for the procreation of children" @His_Grace
- William McCrea MP: quoting Bible in Parliament often met with laughter, scorn, intolerance by MPs. Biblical marriage has served UK well.
- MT @RhoslynThomas: BBC radio 4 playing the wedding march as they announce the SSM bill.
- Stewart Jackson MP: comparing opposition to gay marriage to racism is complete nonsense.
- Catholic adoption agencies "smashed on the altar of political correctness", says Stewart Jackson MP
- David Simpson MP: neither Parliament nor Government has the (moral) jurisdiction to redefine marriage
- Sarah Wollaston MP lowers debate by wheeling out old case of Alan Turing's chemical castration and suicide. Emotional blackmail.
- Ian Paisley Jnr MP: Government cannot change nature. Refining marriage is a nonsense which will damage marriage.
- Willie Bain MP claiming maj. support for SSM among Catholics. But such surveys usually don't distinguish btwn practising RCs and lapsed RCs
- Andrew Selous MP quotes Jesus' definition of marriage as between man & woman. Not merely a cultural norm but God's design from Creation.
- Matthew Offord MP: a flexible redefinition of marriage will lead to calls for further redefinitions e.g. polygamy, polyamory
- Eric Ollerenshaw MP should've studied the canon law and practice of the Catholic Church re marriage rather than ramble incoherently about it
- Pro-SSM MP Brooks Newmark quotes Orwell's Animal Farm. But Orwell would have opposed the state's power-grab of marriage from the people
- Andrea Leadsom MP: no mandate and no public clamour for same-sex marriage
- Bob Blackman MP: I've received 1000 letters against gay marriage, only 6 in favour
- Richard Drax MP: element of token politics in parliamentary push to redefine marriage
- Teachers who refuse to teach lessons about gay marriage will be disadvantaged, says Richard Drax MP
- Equalities spokeswoman Kate Green caricatures traditional definition of marriage as religious. Repeats nonsense that marriage evolves
- MPs now voting on whether to give the same-sex marriage bill a second reading
- 400 ayes, 175 noes on same-sex marriage bill 2nd reading
- MPs now voting on the government's programme motion (timetable of forthcoming stages of the bill)
- RT @Gillibrand #marriagevote Parliament has just voted to defy natural law, acting way beyond their powers.
- MT @ProtectthePope: Shame on House of Commons - 400 for same-sex marriage, 175 against. Children will pay the price.
- MT @labourwhips: Preliminary figues suggest Cameron failed to get majority of Tory MPs. 139 voting No, 132 Yes.
- MT @LouiseMensch: David Cameron secures his place in history. > As PM who wrecked marriage in law for generations as yet unborn.
- Programme motion: ayes 499, 55 noes
- RT @c4mtweets Blog» C4M delighted by the scale of the Parliamentary opposition to redefining marriage bill: Res... http://bit.ly/11QZbrt #C4M #Marriage
- RT @c4mtweets Blog» Gay marriage vote, ‘a disaster for Cameron’ says C4M: Tonight, 175 MPs voted against the Bi... http://bit.ly/11QZbHK #C4M #Marriage
- Pro- #family MPs fight back in same-sex #marriage debate http://www.spuc.org.uk/news/releases/2013/february05 … #prolife
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