Gay marriage: MPs back legislation

[deannawol]

Gay marriage: MPs back legislation

MPs have approved same-sex marriage in England and Wales in a key Commons vote, despite the opposition of dozens of Conservative MPs.
The Commons voted in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, by 400 to 175, a majority of 225, at the end of a full day's debate on the bill.

Prime Minister David Cameron has

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[halfshellvenus]

and marriage is a great way of celebrating the difference between a man and a woman."
What on EARTH is he talking about there?

Oh-- sexism, maybe?

People don't marry because they're necessarily different, they marry (for love) because things are somehow right when they're together.

That's one of the stupidest non-sequitur statements I've see in a while, after "Goats! Pedophiles! Harems!" and other random scare tactics.

[teenageriot16]

I have no idea what some of the MP's were barking on about today. This in particular was a head scratcher; Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale called gay marriage "Alice in Wonderland" territory, and "Orwellian.''

[halfshellvenus]

Orwellian?

Treating everyone MORE humanely is ORWELLIAN?

Fucking dinosaur mentality. :(

[maladaptive]

Doublespeak at its double plus good finest!

[corbyinoz]

Good on you, UK. I fear for what will happen to this Bill in the House of Lords, though.

This is going to be one of those issues, like women voting, that in years to come people will shake their heads and say, "Weren't they quaint? Fancy arguing over something so obviously sensible."

[romp]

agreed--more and more people are figuring that out

[ljtaylor]

re: the second half of your comment...why haven't people figured this out already damnit. mind you some charming people still have issues with women and poc having rights, so...

[octoberstarlite]

Given the strong support it's had, I'm pretty confident it'll pass through the House of Lords.

[j_o_n_n_o]

oop @ cameron doing this to try and show his party as compassionate modernisers, but inadvertently showing that they're all just out of date monsters.

worried about how this is gonna get through the lords unscathed though.

[muted_hitokiri]

they're all just out of date monsters

But half the tory MPs did vote in favour? Sorry, I'm largely apolitical, but a lot of these recent threads have seemed very intent on slamming the party as a whole, which doesn't strike me as very fair.

[madwitch]

Oh, it's great that half the Tories voted in favour of this. Now if they could just stop voting in favour of the destructive changes to disability benefit, stop bringing in policies that make the poor worse off whilst not damaging their rich mates, then perhaps people would be more inclined to be fair about them.

Although I think people have been very fair, really.

[muted_hitokiri]

Yeah sorry, I don't consider calling people 'monsters' to be fair, actually, especially when half the supposed 'monsters' didn't even do what they're supposed to have done to deserve the name in this instance.

[69love_songs]

The Evangelical Baptist Christians on my news feed are going wild. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN. Unless of course, they are gay children, I suppose. Not them. Don't think of them.

[mephisto5]

People in the UK write to the lords. We were lucky that so many MPs voted for this despite the disparity in the number if letters between those supporting the bill and those against- those against vastly outnumbering supporters. We can't afford to be complacent again because it may not be possible to apply the parliament act to get this forced through.

ETA: 'yet again, the Conservatives have lived up to their name'

136 of them did. Several explicitly because of the imbalance in the response they had received.

127 of them voted in favour of the bill.

[strandedinaber]

Thanks for the reminder - I had meant to write yesterday and forgot. Will be doing so.