To be fair a Tory MP (Margot James, Stourbridge) has just given an impassioned speech in favour.
Oh, here is a Northern Ireland member. Oh dear. Jim Shannon, DUP, speaking via time-travel from around 1690.
If this dastardly legislation passes I will be asking my dad if I can marry him as soon as possible.
Presumably the same thing that currently stops a man from marrying his daughter.
Cheryl Gillan, MP, and obviously a Tory: “The Church has not been consulted enough”
Lol.
She is a lesbian, so you’d hope so.
Oh, dear. And as for Nadine Norris, she thinks this bill would encourage unfaithfulness.
I think that argument’s a first for me.
A nice little vignette from the inevitable Guardian live blog;
See- the personal really is political!
Michael McCann, Labour (East Kilbride, Lesmahagow) possibly playing up to his constituency there (“It’s a bad piece of legislation because of hurr durf hurrr”). Take the Cardinal off your speed dial, you dick. It’s not even a piece of legislation that applies to Scotland.
I didn’t know that. She seemed to take the House with her anyway. It’s almost like people have preconceptions about <social category> and then revise them once they meet a member of <social category>.
If any of you know anyone who lives in Bootle, please have them write Joe Benton and let them know that Allan Roberts - the Labour MP from 1979-1990 - was a personal friend of mine, was Gay and is probably spinning in his grave knowing the current MP is voting no. The least Mr. Benton could to would be to vote YES, in honor of Allan and his years of dedicated service from that constituency. And unless Bootle has suddenly become a hotbed of conservatives, I find it hard to believe that the majority of voters in that district would want to join forces with the Tories on this.
Then again, I am a US citizen, so my opinion is perhaps one of those “outside” influences Mr. Benton is complaining about.
My MP is voting yes, but she’s deputy leader of the Labour Party so no surprise.
What’s more surprising is my hometown’s MP is voting yes, and he’s a Tory for not one of the most progressive or well-liked towns in the country!
David Burrows just complained that “MPs who oppose the bill have been called homophobes, Nazis or bigots”. Earlier, in the Independent, he added "There has been abuse and intolerance of both sides.”
That never fails to piss me off: pretending that someone calling you a homophobe for being homophobic is on any level the same as thousands of years of oppression and persecution. Like racists, horrified at being called out, trying to equate being labelled a racist with the KKK dragging black people behind their cars. No, it is not the same. There may be some abuse and intolerance on both sides, but they are certainly NOT equal.
The DUP are making everyone else look really good here.
Ugh. Always the ridiculous misrepresentation of the Netherlands:
[QUOTE=the Guardian live blog]
Matthew Offord, the Conservative MP for Hendon, said all previous attempts to allow gay marriage have led to marriage being defined[sic]. He suggested that this could lead to marriage being redefined to include polygamy. In the Netherlands three-way relationships were now acknowledged under cohabitation agreements, he said.
[/QUOTE]
Yes, cohabitation agreements. That’s just any old contract you draw up. Could say anything you want. You can get 3 people to sign that if you want, and this has obviously always been possible. Like 3 or 4 or 15 roommates signing as tenants. It is not the same as marriage or “registered partnership”. Grr.
It’s like Santorum claiming the Dutch kill their oldies all over again…
400 to 175 in favour
Seven or eight more hurdles and it might just make it.
I’m allowed to marry my GF now. 
I hope so! 
You must live quite near me. Simon Hughes is my MP, the snivelling groat, but I work in Harriet’s constituency and we’ve been having an interesting correspondence on the GCSE results.
Civil partnerships are subject to the same incest prohibitions as marriages.
I used to live in Hughes’ constituency! I lived by the Blue Anchor. Near Camberwell now.
I didn’t know that but watching her on the news last night I kind of assumed. Some people just ping the gaydar hard.
Who’s Nadine Norris?
Also, not really surprised that the party of Peter Robinson andhis lovely wife Iris are a tad homophobic. It really ought to be called the DUrP.