Baroness Butler-Sloss
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Marriage: Humanist Ceremonies
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The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con)
It is the turn of the Cross Benches.
Baroness Butler-Sloss
I find this very difficult to understand. Why, if it was right to have a review of marriage generally, did we have the same-sex marriage Act but not allow the same for humanists? There is an unacceptable discrepancy there, and I speak as someone who is not a humanist.
Lord Faulks
It is not of course, as the noble Baroness would confirm, that we do not allow humanist marriage—a civil marriage can take place followed by a humanist ceremony. The gravamen of the complaint is that they cannot take place simultaneously.