The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

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