Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill
Debate between Lord Archbishop of York and Baroness Deech
Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard): House of Lords
Friday 1st February 2019
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Friday 1st February 2019
(5 years, 9 months ago)
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Baroness Deech (CB)
My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Lexden, because there is unfairness to siblings and I do not go along with the rather emotional arguments that it is somehow inappropriate to extend any form of union to them. There is no solid evidence behind that; it is simply subjective. I hope the Government will treat them fairly one day, if not today.
The Lord Bishop of Chelmsford
My Lords, perhaps I may make a very small but important point. Proposed new Clause 1(7) refers to regulations being made for civil partnerships to be converted,
“into marriage and vice versa”.
This would require quite a bit of consultation with the Church of England and, I think, with the Church in Wales.