Ecumenical Marriage Bill [HL]

The right reverend Prelate uses the word “prescribe”. This Bill prescribes nothing; it permits. E...

The noble Lord makes his points clearly on these matters, but I hope that he will listen to what ...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the right reverend Prelate and to agree with him. I do so beca...

I am trying to follow my noble friend’s argument and looking at the text of the Bill. In Clause 1...

My noble friend makes a good point, but I will come to why I am entirely against the measure in a...

I wonder if I might take the noble Lord back to his original point that he felt it important that...

I am delighted at last to have something on which I entirely agree with the noble Lord, in that I...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to lend support to the Ecumenical Marriage Bill that the noble L...

My Lords, I am taking part in this debate because it seems extraordinary that there is just one M...

My Lords, this short but interesting debate is a welcome diversion from the heavy diet of the Eur...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this debate. When I saw on the speakers’ list that my ...

Will the noble Lord let me know where he is next preaching? I am enjoying this so much that I wou...

I promise the noble Lord that before he goes home I will give him such a list.

I have been ...

My Lords, on what is very nearly my first wedding anniversary, I congratulate my noble friend Lor...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving me this space but I could give plenty of evidence of peo...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention; perhaps I should have prefaced my “evidence” with “s...

My Lords, I thank all those who have taken part in this debate. I say to my noble friend who has ...

The noble Lord makes me feel slightly uncomfortable. I want to clarify what I said at the beginni...

The right reverend Prelate is making my point for me. We are talking about Christians who want to...