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Commons Chamber
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Tue 16 Jul 2013
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) For example, the Government now support the amendments on humanism and so on, which they did not when - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) refer to some of the most significant amendments passed in the other place, one of which deals with humanism - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) We debated humanism when the Bill was in this place and in Committee, and the Government originally stated - Speech Link
4: Gerald Howarth (CON - Aldershot) I want to celebrate marriage. - Speech Link
5: Nia Griffith (LAB - Llanelli) Rhondda (Chris Bryant) for the hard work they have put in, particularly on the amendments dealing with humanism - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Mon 15 Jul 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, having been informed of the purport of the Marriage - Speech Link
2: None a long and happy marriage. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bishops - Bishops) accords with their understanding of marriage itself. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) I know that the demands that were made on humanism, pensions and a host of other issues meant that they - Speech Link
5: None The same-sex marriage Bill is a historic Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Mon 08 Jul 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (CON - Life peer) Marriage is an important institution and marriage for profit risks undermining key safeguards—for example - Speech Link
2: Lord Birt (CB - Life peer) Humanism is a movement. - Speech Link
3: Baroness O'Loan (CB - Life peer) promoted same-sex marriage equally. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Chester (Bishops - Bishops) for marriage in every sense. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) marriage or an opposite-sex marriage, so I am not quite sure what point noble Lords have been making - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Wed 19 Jun 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None that the marriage is the marriage of a same sex couple.” - Speech Link
2: Lord Carey of Clifton (CB - Life peer) that the marriage is the marriage of a same sex couple.” - Speech Link
3: Lord Harrison (LAB - Life peer) of the registrar or any other participant any content distinctive of a non-religious belief, such as humanism—added - Speech Link
4: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I have no specific expertise on humanism and am not a humanist myself. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) The noble Baroness needs to acknowledge that humanism is a system of belief. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Mon 17 Jun 2013
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Tankerness (LDEM - Life peer) of those who perform marriage as opposed to the place of marriage being of crucial importance with regard - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cumberlege (CON - Life peer) Both the minister conducting the religious marriage and the registrar conducting the marriage in a register - Speech Link
3: None 16 because there will not be a separate different-sex marriage and same-sex marriage designation—there - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Tue 21 May 2013
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None registered charity principally concerned with advancing or practising the non-religious belief known as humanism - Speech Link
2: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) registered charity principally concerned with advancing or practising the non-religious belief known as humanism - Speech Link
3: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) My contention is that we should recognise the strong popular support for humanism, just as we recognise - Speech Link
4: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) Humanism is recognised as a strand of belief. - Speech Link
5: Kelvin Hopkins (IND - Luton North) , so it treats humanism on a par with other belief systems. - Speech Link
6: Maria Miller (CON - Basingstoke) Are we clear what humanism means in legislative terms, and who the definition would catch? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Religion in the United Kingdom - Thu 22 Nov 2012
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (CB - Life peer) Even there, key beliefs such as the importance of marriage are attacked by those intolerant of the rights - Speech Link
2: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (CB - Life peer) and the news last week about the demotion of Adrian Smith, who expressed a personal view about gay marriage - Speech Link
3: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) in it is that the church has sought to put pressure on the Government not to legislate on same-sex marriage - Speech Link
4: Lord Griffiths (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) I welcome the debate with science, secularism and humanism. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Council of Europe (UK Chairmanship) - Thu 27 Oct 2011
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) again to the diaries of theformer immigration Minister, he wrote that his proposal to increase the marriage - Speech Link
2: Sandra Osborne (LAB - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) compliment them—are currently consulting on taking this a step further with the introduction of gay marriage - Speech Link
3: Michael Connarty (LAB - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) In this country, however, for a heterosexual couple who do not go through a formal legal marriage, either - Speech Link
4: Michael Connarty (LAB - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) opposition from one or two fundamentalist born again Christians who tried to take all the references to humanism - Speech Link
5: David Lidington (CON - Aylesbury) Like him, I have had some cases of forced marriage in my constituency surgery, and I think that the basic - Speech Link