Lords overturn Commons vote on rcg nsent age for gays – The Irish Tim

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE CLEARS THE HOE OF LORDS
• LORDS OVERTURN COMMONS VOTE ON RCG NSENT AGE FOR GAYS
• PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’
• GAY MARRIAGE: HOW LORDS VOTED
• 18 ARGUMENTS MA AGAST GAY MARRIAGE THE HOE OF LORDS
• HIBOUND CHAMBER LETS DOWN ITS HAIR GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE
• GAY LORD
• GAY MARRIAGE BILL EXPECTED TO PLETE PASSAGE THROUGH HOE OF COMMONS
• LEADG GAY ACTIVIST APPOTED TO BRISH HOE OF LORDS
• LORDS OVERTURN COMMONS VOTE ON RCG NSENT AGE FOR GAYS
• PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’

GAY MARRIAGE CLEARS THE HOE OF LORDS

It is ranked 64th on the Top 100 list piled by lbian, gay, bi and trans equaly chary Stonewall. By takg steps to make their workplac supportive and welg of all lbian, gay, bi and trans people, bs like the Hoe of Lords are brgg closer to a world where everyone is accepted whout exceptn.

LORDS OVERTURN COMMONS VOTE ON RCG NSENT AGE FOR GAYS

Peers gave their assent to the third readg of the Government’s same-sex marriage bill whout a formal vote after a short bate the Lords, also backg plans for a review of pensn arrangements for gay upl. Ben Summerskill, chief executive of Stonewall, said: “It’s impossible to exprs how much joy this historic step will brg to tens of thoands of gay people and their fai and iends.

PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’

“The Bill’s progrs through Parliament shows that, at last, the majory of policians both Ho unrstand the public’s support for equaly – though ’s also remd that gay people still have powerful opponents. Speakg of his 15 years as a peer, he thanked the Hoe of Lords, addg: “As a gay man over those 15 years you have changed my life. The Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Rev Graham Jam, said that spe the Church’s opposn to gay marriage legal regnn for gay relatnships had ma society “healthier”.

“But dog that I would jt ask them to bear md that although this may be a day of unqualified rejoicg for them, there are many our untry who by no stretch of the imagatn uld be lled eher homophobic or bigoted who are unhappy about this Bill.

GAY MARRIAGE: HOW LORDS VOTED

The Hoe of Lords last night overturned the massive Commons vote favour of lowerg the age of nsent for gay men om 18 to 16. On a ee vote, the Lords agreed by 290 vot to 122, majory 168, to strike out the measure om the Crime and Disorr vote as a major blow to gay rights activists who only last month celebrated when MPs voted by a 207-majory to equalise the age of nsent for male homosexuals wh that for move sets peers on another nstutnal llisn urse wh the Commons, ahead of the aboln of heredary peers' rights to s and vote the Lords.

Ignorg ernment pleas not to block the measure, and protts om gay monstrators outsi Parliament, she brand the change "serly flawed".

"Her e was boosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Gee Carey, who was not prent for the bate but earlier yterday said lowerg the age of nsent for homosexuals would be a "grave error" and morally unhealthy.

18 ARGUMENTS MA AGAST GAY MARRIAGE THE HOE OF LORDS

Warng that "homosexual practis rry great health risks to young people, " she plaed the Commons amendment had been "tacked on", hardly allowg any bate. Lord Magnis, the peer acced of bullyg gay MPs and rantg about “homos”, has been officially spend om the Hoe of Lords after his lleagu voted to eject him.

The polician, a former MP for Northern Ireland’s Ulster Unnist Party, was spend om the unelected upper chamber on Monday (7 December) as peers voted by 408 to 24 to back a report ncludg his abive nduct and e of homophobic language breached l on bullyg and harassment. Lord Magnis lashed out at ‘queers’ and ‘homos’. Ken Magnis, 82, is acced of directg homophobic abe towards SNP MP Hannah Barll and Labour MP Le Pollard, who are both gay, as well as abg parliamentary secury officer Christian Bombolo.

In an email wh the subject “Discrimatn by Homos”, Magnis raged: “I’m not prepared to be victimised by ‘queers’ – not least by those like Pollard and that ‘lady’ Hannah Barll, the Sts Nat who recently sought to embarrass me.

HIBOUND CHAMBER LETS DOWN ITS HAIR GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE

The email also boasted of his 2012 nomatn by Stonewall as bigot of the year for ments that led to his removal om the Ulster Unnist Party, when he scribed homosexualy as a “disease” and claimed equal marriage would be a “ng on the ladr” towards btialy. She add: “As we seek to make polics and ed the natns of the UK, fairer and more jt, we mt root out abive and homophobic behavur such as that which I and others experienced at the hands of Lord Ken Magnis.

Full list of Hoe of Lords members who rejected report on homophobic bullyg. Earlier this week, the Hoe of Lords feated by a marg of 390-148 an amendment to the Gay Marriage Bill that would have “killed” .

GAY LORD

Of the fourteen Church of England bishops the Hoe of Lords durg the vote, ne voted to feat the Gay Marriage Bill and 5 abstaed. Parliament still has more work to do on The Gay Marriage Bill mtee.

But the wi marg of the vote Lord’s strongly suggts that the bill will be implemented some the bate, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby, gave a speech opposg gay “marriage. ”He cricized gay marriage as unrmg the good of tradnal marriage bee (a) the gay marriage bill effectively abolish, ref, and recreat marriage ways that are unequal and different for different “genr” tegori; (b) gay marriage abolish the ncept of marriage as “a normative place for procreatn, ” (c) gay marriage dimish “the ia of marriage as venant, ” and (d) weakens the fay “ s normal sense” as our foundatn for we n be thankful for the pots, there are several statements ++Jt Welby ma that raise ser qutns for Christians – and Anglins – who see the Bible as speakg wh thory to every issue of life, cludg human sexualy and marriage. ”Actually, the “ntributn by the Bishop of Salisbury” that Archbishop Welby is referrg to should not be viewed as wele bee he pared those who oppose gay marriage to those Christians who promoted slavery and apartheid.

It ignor the pla readg of the Bible’s uniform wns to homosexual practice as trsilly disorred, ntrary to God’s creative will and sful. It mak any terpretatn of the Biblil texts valid, even where such terpretatns ignore and even vlate the pla readg and meang of the mendg as “a strong and wele ntributn” an ad homemparison of those who oppose gay “marriage” to promoters of slavery and apartheid, is Archbishop Welby tendg to bls the monizatn of those who uphold a pla readg of the text of the Bible as speaks to issu of sexualy and marriage? ”Archbishop Welby went on to scribe how the majory of Church of England bishops the Hoe of Lords voted favor of Civil Partnerships, (rather than gay marriage) a few years ago.

GAY MARRIAGE BILL EXPECTED TO PLETE PASSAGE THROUGH HOE OF COMMONS

After all, the CofE bishops have already effectively removed beg a civil partnership as an impediment to beg a would be the same kd of cremental step that we have wnsed so many tim North Ameri by those who champn the gay liberatn movement both wh The Epispal Church and the state. First the normalizatn of homosexual behavr to full pary wh heterosexual behavr.

Then the supprsn and eraditn (monizatn) of all who thk, wre or speak negatively about homosexual nduct and issu. But by failg to articulate what the Bible, and th the Church of England, teach about homosexual relatnships, he left the door open for misterpretatn as to what the Church believ. Surely this will unrme any subsequent actns he and other bishops may wish to take to protect the relig eedom of those who object to the Gay Marriage Bill.

LEADG GAY ACTIVIST APPOTED TO BRISH HOE OF LORDS

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”And still another peer, 86-year-old Baron Jenk of Rodg, said he had been supportive of gay rights sce he was a llege stunt and his grandfather first explaed gay people to him. It’s for gays and lbians — I n’t possibly marry you. ”It was not the first time gay peers had spoken openly of their sexualy the chamber, or the first time their lleagu had champned gay rights.

LORDS OVERTURN COMMONS VOTE ON RCG NSENT AGE FOR GAYS

In 1999, the Lords rejected legislatn to lower the age of nsent for gay sex to 16, om 18, wh many argug — om personal boardg-school experience, seemed — that the bill would make teenage boys vulnerable to the predatory advanc of olr gay men. )The current gay marriage bill passed Febary after an angry bate the Hoe of Commons, wh many Conservativ fyg the ernment le and votg agast .

But even s most impassned crics, a passel of noble bishops among them, went out of their way, wh a few rare exceptns, to clare their firm support for gay upl and civil partnerships.

“There has been a very remarkable change, ” said Lord Jenk, who remembers the vrlic, revulsn-filled Hoe of Commons bat the 1960s over crimalizg gay sex. “The massive tolerance and disgt which the ncept of homosexualy still gave exprsn to then — nobody would get away wh that today, ” he said an meant that when the lord bishop of Leicter rose to speak agast the bill on Monday he did so, he said, “as one whose rpect for and appreciatn of gay clergy is ep and who regniz them sacrificial liv and uful mistri.

PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’

”It meant that when Lord Dear cricized the bill as beg “troduced on a whim and handled such valier fashn, ” he also said that he had “seen and appld this untry’s change of attu towards homosexualy, om thly veiled tolerance 50 years or so ago to a posn of unrstandg and acceptance today.

”Lord Smh of Fsbury, who as a legislator the Hoe of Commons 30 years ago beme the first openly gay member of Parliament, said an terview that the Lords’ attus were begng to move wh public opn, particularly among younger the end of the bate, the Lords voted on an amendment that would have killed the bill.

This beg the Hoe of Lords, some ployed reasong that seemed old-fashned, at the very notg that “homosexuals are often very lightful, artistic and lovg people, ” Barons Knight of Collgtree observed that “a man n no more bear a child than a woman n produce sperm.