Equal age of consent, abolishing the military ban – came from Europe. Civil Partnerships, gender recognition act – came from the Lib Dems. And so forth. The only thing Labour have actually done off their own bat was to respond in 1999 when Europe outlawed employment discrimination against trans people, and Labour responded by bringing in a whole raft of exemptions from that rule to take away the rights that trans people had just won.

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Time and again the Lib Dems have put LGBT equality proposals forward, after a few years (between 5 and 20 years depending on the issue) Labour have decided to go along with a watered-down version of the Lib Dem proposals, and the Tories have voted against.

They've never been a party that cared for diversity or equality, and while they might not actively repeal anything in their first term back in power, we won't be seeing anything positive happen either.

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Almost all evidence available on the subject shows that children, particularly boys benefit from having positive male role models (which don't necessarily have to be a father).

According to the most recent figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), only 1.4% of all women receiving IVF cycles were single, while only 0.5% of all women receiving IVF cycles were registered as lesbian – that's 574 cycles and 201 cycles respectively. When you consider that women can often undergo more than one cycle, that's just not very many women. And "the reality," says Summerskill, "is that almost every lesbian couple with children works assiduously to ensure that there are male role models for their children, whether they be family members or good friends."

So are people maybe just being a little hypersensitive and only hearing what they want to hear? The amendment proposed to the Act was much more likely to affect heterosexual single woman than lesbians.

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So, does this mean that Christian registrars' 'right' to act above the law and exercise their bigotry will be given protection or not?

This is why I don't trust the tories. Not because of dead issues like Section 28, but the chance that religious beliefs will be respected even when it inconveniences others. If they talk of a bill of rights, then I would expect to see the freedom from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in that bill. Only then will I trust the Tories; I am not taking Mrs May's word for it – faith afterall is not a virtue.

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