I know there is one other subject that the gay community is particularly interested in: marriage. As someone who believes in commitment, in marriage and in civil partnerships, my view is that if religious organisations want to have civil partnerships registered at their places of worship that should be able to happen. Last week the Equalities Minister held listening events with faith groups and representatives of the gay community, as we consider what the next steps are for civil partnerships and how we enable religious organisations to register same-sex relationships on their premises if they wish to do so. I think this is an important step forward and we will help to make it happen.

If these specimens thought that supporting the compulsory wearing of green socks would get ‘em a few more votes they’d support that too !

Oh well. Only a few more weeks and they can get back to echoing the Daily Mail.

Call me old-fashioned, but I’m not all that comfortable with politicians who make up their principles on twitter.

Because he wants to retain the support of the beery, lardarsed homophobes who run some of the big unions?

I support calls to change the definition of marriage to include exclusive relationships between couples, regardless of sex

So he wants to stop Jennie and II from getting married now?

One step forward for the LGBT, one step back for the poly. Lovely.

(I suspect he’s not even thinking about non-exclusive relationships in his wording there, but that’s part of the problem)