Baroness Barker: The House of Lords showed its spirit, relevance and understanding by voting for equal marriage
Openly gay Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Liz Barker, has told PinkNews.co.uk that she thinks the House of Lords “showed it’s generosity, spirit, relevance and understanding of young people”, in rejecting a measure to wreck the equal marriage bill.
Speaking to PinkNews, in reaction to the vote in favour of equal marriage, Baroness Barker said: “I think this is a very proud moment for the House of Lords, I think it has shown its generosity, and spirit. I think it’s show its relevance and understanding of young people. Things that it isn’t always acknowledged for. It was a really really good day for equality, and a really good day for the House of Lords.
When asked whether she was fearful that the bill might of been defeated by the amendment, she said: “You never like to take things for granted, and the opposition to this has been highly well funded by these Evangelical Christian groups, and they’re very well organised at getting their propaganda around, so I didn’t take anything for granted at all”.
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