Secretary of State for Defence, Philip Hammond, has warned of the danger of redefining marriage.
Speaking on BBC’s Question Time, he said there was no great demand in the country for change and criticised the amount of parliamentary time devoted to the issue. “I have just never felt that this is what we should be focusing on,” he told the audience.
“This change does redefine marriage. For millions of people who are married, the meaning of marriage changes.
“There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that any government thinks it can change the definition of an institution like marriage.
“There was no huge demand for this and we didn’t need to spend a lot of parliamentary time and upset vast numbers of people to do it,” he added.
The comments from such a senior Cabinet colleague will embarrass David Cameron, and encourage Parliamentary opposition to the measure.
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Thank you Sir, for voicing your opinion on “The Re defining of the Marriage Bill,” I feel the same way, and so do thousands of other’s, and I fear that if David Cameron/Nick Cleg goes through with this blatant act against the opinion of the people of this Country, then He’ll be out before his heels touch the ground. You cannot interfere with GOD’s Laws, and He instituted Marriage Between ONE man and One woman for the procreation of human kind.only. .Anything else is un-natural, and against Nature.I feel so strongly about this, I have always voted Conservative, but NEVER again. and while I’m at it, I WAnt out of Europe too. End of Rant.
So a hetrosexual couple who choose not to have children, or are unable to have children are un-natural then?
The answer to your question in ‘No, thank you for asking,’ but personally, I believe that those who choose not to have children are spitting in the faces of those unable to.
Thank you for speaking up on this Subject and I appreciate all the more because the present Leader of this Country is required to promote it.
And so on we go, down the slippery slope, the wide road, to destruction. Maranatha, Lord Jesus!!!
He’s left it late enough to say anything. Why didn’t he speak out earlier?
He should have challenged David Cameron for the leadership. This bill is an outrage, and it is certainly grounds for war.
Every day, heterosexuals are insulted (as “bigots”) and treated with contempt by the self-important queer elite created by the Labour government.
good point Monica. Possibly trying to steal UKIP’s thunder by “lurching to the right”, just as they are over the EU referendum, all of a sudden they’re all in favour of it. Smoke & mirrors, imo, Cameron is not a conservative, don’t think any of them are actually, all 3 “main” parties are the same, same Frankfurt School PC rubbish!!! At least UKIP is shaking them up a bit, but I don’t think they’re the answer to the huge problems facing this country, indeed most of the West, mostly of the politicians’ own making, especially Gordon Brown and his “Moral Compass”!! What a joke!! Spent public money like water, UK is £trillions in debt (like most of the West), living beyond our means!! Thanks to globalisation, most of the jobs have gone to places like China, where they pay workers £7 a week, not £7 an hour like here! The left-wing “March through the Institutions” means that they (UKIP) will be opposed and sabotaged at every turn. What a mess, see what happens when you abandon God, even spit in His face!! Possibly the anti-Christ will emerge offering to sort it all out, is he Obama? The Obamessiah is destroying America. (apparently, healings were reported at his speeches: the power of psycho-somatic disorders!!) You can fool some of the people ALL the time!! BIG trouble ahead for the West!
I am so so pleased this man has stood up publicly to denounce the governmental pressure to kick this bill into law. I trust this will open the way for more of the same and bring some blessing on UK.
The attitude of Cameron and all the others behind the scenes tweaking these strings is sheer arrogance, a blatant attack on family, an insult to those who are married and to those who have given their lives over our history to protect this land from evil and paganism. And for what benefit? I see none, but I do see big trouble looming on the current proposed path.
The government ought to be encouraging family values and marriage (as currently and correctly defined) so today’s children and future generations have the best possible grounding for their lives, as previous generations did.
Deliver us from sinking into depravity i.e. being deprived of a decent upbringing, not only because marriage is God ordained but its also naturally ordained, and its not wise to tamper with either is it.
The Christian who spoke on Question Time spoke up effectively and did not seem to have the majority backing of the audience and the Coalition for Marriage petition was dismissed by a member of the panel. Needless to say the usual rhetoric about rights was wheeled out and once again there was no attempt to engage with the fact that marriage is being redefined. The inability of same sex couples to reproduce is ignored as is the complimentary of male and female genitalia. And of course any serious reflection of the nature of homosexual activity is not up for debate. St Paul would be arrested for penning Romans Ch1. Who in the church would dare to preach from this chapter in todays political climate?
It doesn’t matter even if you are a lone voice.Gay marriage is sin and unnatural act. The elites of Britain and America are really pushing the world to the edge. Whoever said Obama has the same image as that of satan in the film was right.As for cameron. Satan is really ruling the world
peter
At least someone in this misguided government has spoken up against a divisive and ungodly proposal.
But to all who support this – God does not approve He will act either now or in eternity to which all are consigned.
1Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces; From heaven He will thunder against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth.
I am pleased that some sort of common sense is making a comeback…I thought it was lost with the rest of decency and honesty… He maybe a bit late in speaking out, but at least he has…watching some news I saw that the old tories are against this bill. and rightly so! people are starting to realise that this government and its lackeys are really destroying the foundations of this counrty, and want us all to surrender to satan…God is a better planner, the truth will out!
I just watched the news this evening and it said that the Church of Scotland was allowing openly gay men and women to become ministers!, but then this is also the same church that says the Jews have no right to the land of Israel, this is very clearly worrying times for Christianity and indeed for the Church of Scotland which appears to have totally lost it’s way.
Winston Peters was just as scathing of the NZ Parliament, watch here http://youtu.be/6M4zhlFOcRw
I wholeheartedly agree with Philip Hammond but did not see the programme on which he spoke.
My husband end I have been married 50 years this year and I feel that this has been completely devalued by this bill.
Marriage is not just a law in this country but is God’s law and does David Cameron think he is above God?
The family situations in this country are at crisis point and this will just make them worse with children becoming confused, especially when they are at school and find that other children have Mum & Dad not two Mums or two Dads!
As tory voters all our lives these are two David Cameron has lost but I am sure that God will have the last word and we will continue to pray that the bill will not go through.
Marriage as an institution does not belong to one particular religion or deity and was in place before organised religions took hold. You may interpret marriage in a Christian context, but that’s not the same as it being a Christian concept.
I am bewildered as to how you can feel your marriage is devalued by other people in love wanting to be married. Do you love your husband any less ? Are your shared experiences and goals somehow different ? Is your relationship to your husband somehow different ? The only person who can devalue *your* marriage is either you or your husband, since you’re the only two people involved in it!
Jane,
marriage is a gift from God and not to be undertaken lightly, far less to be demanded as the Gay Rights lobby last Tuesday aggressively demonstrated outside Parliament. As someone still single and celibate at fifty-four who wonders what being husband and fatherhood would have been like, do I have a right to demand a wife from God?
But for His grace, there go those of us happily married ..
I have just been reading some research about those countries that have permitted SS ‘marriage’ for the longest time. It concludes that SSM is initially quite popular among those who suffer this attraction (5,100 in Holland in the first year it was legal, 2001) but that its popularity quickly fades as the novelty value does (about 2,000 last year). However the most notable statistic is that, in such countries, the number of traditional marriage falls quite sharply after the new ‘marriages’ begin. Presumably people feel that it has been devalued or matters less afterwards but whatever is happening, there are less real marriages.
So Cameron wants to ‘defend marriage’ by introducing a novelty that provably has the opposite effect. Not really, he couldn’t give a damn, he wants those lefties at the BBC (and their like) to love a Conservative (!).
A pity that I did not record that Question Time but good for Philip Hammond. The audience’s reaction, it seems, was hardly surprising, given that society has been imbibing increasingly liberal views these last few decades.