GAY MARRIAGE BILL GOES TO THE LORDS
The Marriage (Same-Sex Couple) Bill is now at Committee Stage in the House of Lords having been passed on Second Reading.
There is not a lot of time to write and/or email. Please urge your friends and members of your church to write to their local peers, using this list. Feel free to print out this list or copy and paste it into a word processor before printing (it will take less paper if you put the peers into three columns – or just include your own county) and circulate it.
WRITE TO PEERS AND BISHOPS
The list below is of current members of the House of Lords who are either new or whose previous voting has been on average supportive of the general equity of the laws of Almighty God as revealed in holy scripture. Their Lordships are elders in the land; please pray for them and write to encourage them to exercise leadership and stand up for righteousness.
The list also contains the 25 most senior bishops at today’s date. When a bishop retires, he is replaced by the next most senior. Please write to your diocesan bishop, or if he is not in the House, to neighbouring diocesans, and encourage them to adopt a Christian world‑view in which God is the only righteous lawmaker, Lord of lords, King of kings, even in the ‘Mother of Parliaments’.
FIND YOUR LOCAL PEERS
Using the list, write quickly to those peers whom you know or who have a connection to where you live. Only Christian Voice prepares such a list of peers listed by county! In the absence of local peers, write to those in an adjoining county or those known (personally or by good reputation) to you already. Tell them that you are praying for them. Ask them to support God’s institution of marriage. Stress that you do not need a reply. Rarely do peers have secretarial help. You want to encourage, not to add burdens.
Every letter counts, and remember: the God of Grace is able to do more than we can imagine; may he use this list, our efforts and their Lordships to His purpose and Glory.
READ: Ex 18:21; 2 Chr 19:7; Psalm 40:9; Prov 8:13‑16; Eccl 12:13‑14; Is 5:20‑23; Jer 18:7-11; Zech 10:5; Matt 5:17‑20; Mark 10:6-8; Luke 11:1‑4, 18:1‑8; John 5:22‑23; Acts 6:4; 2 Cor 10:3‑5.
PRAY: For Lord Dear and thank Almighty God for his courage. Pray that he presses his amendment and that the House of Lords will support him and vote against this Bill. Pray that their Lordships will be aware of their responsibility and of the presence of God, and that there will be those who will fearlessly preach righteousness.
WRITING LETTERS:
Write to all peers at: ‘House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW’ The letter will be forwarded if the peer is not in the House. Naturally, the House of Lords, like the House of Commons, will only accept bulk mailings even at the House itself if every letter is stamped, at least second class.
Address the envelope as shown, adding the definite article (eg ‘The Lord Levy’). Unless you know them personally, your letter to a duke or archbishop begins ‘Your Grace’. Letters to all other peers begin ‘My Lord’, or to a bishop, ‘My Lord Bishop’. Letters to peeresses begin ‘My Lady’. Letters conclude either ‘I am, my Lord, your (or Your Grace’s) obedient servant’ or simply, ‘Yours faithfully’. However, even the House of Lords is now suggesting a more familiar style, in which letters begin ‘Dear Lord <name>’ or ‘Dear Bishop’ and conclude ‘Yours sincerely.’
You can email peers by going to http://www.parliament.uk/mps‑lords‑and‑offices/lords/ and searching for your chosen peer by name. Clicking on their name should give a telephone number and a personal email address (although some only have a House of Lords generic email).
List of Peers by Country and County (London by Borough or District)
LONDON
Barnet
Lord Carr of Hadley PC
Lord Levy
Belgravia
Lord Bell
Lord Selsdon
Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia
Brent
Baroness Amos
Baroness Goudie
Camden
Lord Browne‑Wilkinson
Lord Collins of Mapesbury
Lord Feldman
Baroness Hayman
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill
Lord Noon
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Lord Quirk CBE FBA
Lord Stallard
Chelsea
Lord Bilimoria CBE
Lord Renwick of Clifton KCMG
Lord Rogers of Riverside
The Viscount Slim OBE DL
Lord St John of Bletso
Lord Weidenfeld
City of London
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Lord Hooson QC
Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE
Lord Sheikh
Lord Stevens of Ludgate
Baroness Wheeler
Ealing
Lord Burns GCB
Enfield
Baroness Gardner of Parkes
Lord Giddens
Greenwich
Baroness Wheatcroft
Hackney
Baroness Blackstone
Lord Glasman
Lord Low of Dalston CBE
Lord Wei
Hammersmith & Fulham
Lord Brabazon of Tara DL
Lord Winston
Hampstead
Baroness Garden of Frognal
Lord Hameed CBE
Lord Mance
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall
Lord Mitchell
Haringey
Lord Gavron CBE
Lord Harris of High Cross
Lord McIntosh of Haringey
Harrow
Baroness Cox
Holland Park
Baroness Kingsmill
Baroness Vadera
Hounslow
Lord Hayhoe
Islington
Lord Collins of Highbury
Baroness Coussins
Baroness Hussein‑Ece
Baroness Kidron
Lord Smith of Finsbury
Kensington
Lord Chorley
Baroness Hanham CBE
Lord Hollick
Lord Magan of Castletown
The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CMG CBE
Lord Puttnam CBE
Lord Ramsbotham GCB CBE
Baroness Ritchie of Brompton
Lambeth
Lord Elton TD
Lord Mishcon
Lord Moore of Lower Marsh
Baroness Nye
Marylebone
Lord Currie of Marylebone
Lord Millett
Lord Plummer of St. Marylebone TD DL
Lord Stirrup
Lord Wolfson
Merton
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Baroness Hollins
Lord Singh of Wimbledon
Paddington
The Viscount Bridgeman
Lord Tugendhat
Pimlico
Admiral the Lord Boyce GCB OBE DL
Baroness Cohen of Pimlico
Lord Geddes
The Earl Listowel
Lord Bishop of London
Lord Wasserman
Redbridge
Lord Jenkin of Roding PC
Regents Park
Lord Bagri CBE
Lord Moser KCB CBE FBA
Richmond Upon Thames
Lord Attenborough CBE
Lord Woolf
Southwark
Baroness Donaghy
Lord Harris of Peckham
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Professor Lord McColl of Dulwich CBE MS FRCS FAC
Lord Ouseley
Lord Whitty
Tower Hamlets
Lord Black of Crossharbour OC PC (Canada)
Lord Mawson OBE
Baroness Meacher
Wandsworth
Lord Dubs
Lord Lipsey
Lord O’Donnell
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Baroness Prosser
The Viscount Trenchard
Baroness Valentine
Westminster
The Earl Attlee
Lord Brougham and Vaux CBE
Marquess of Cholmondeley KCVO
The Viscount Colville of Culross
Lord Cuckney
Baroness Elles
Lord Flowers FRS
Lord Grabiner QC
Lord Griffiths PC
Baroness Lane‑Fox of Soho
Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge
Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG
Lord Rix CBE DL
ENGLAND
Bedfordshire
The Earl of Erroll
Lord Hussain
Lord Luke
Lord Naseby
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise
Berkshire
Baroness Buscombe
Marshall of the RAF the Lord Craig of Radley GCB OBE
Lord Faulks
Baroness Flather JP DL FRSA
The Viscount Goschen
Lord Lloyd‑Webber
Lord Palumbo
Baroness Pitkeathley OBE
Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale
Buckinghamshire
Lord Carrington KG PC CH GCMG MC DL
Lord Darzi of Denham KBE
Lord Denham KBE PC
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The Earl Howe
Lord Scott of Foscote
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Baroness Wilkins
Lord Wilson of Dinton GCB
Cambridgeshire
Lord Archer of Weston‑Super‑Mare
Lord Broers
Lord Browne of Madingley
Lord Hunt of Chesterton CB
Lord Lewis of Newnham
Lord Mawhinney
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
The Viscount Waverley
Baroness Worthington
Cheshire
Lord Ashton of Hyde
Baroness Bakewell
Lord Blair of Boughton
Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
Lord Bishop of Chester
Lord Glendonbrook
Lord Goodlad KCMG
Lord Hall of Birkenhead
Lord Harrison
Lord Hunt of Wirral MBE
Baroness Newlove
Lord Ryder of Wensum OBE
Lord Wade of Chorlton
Cornwall
Lord Coe KBE
Baroness Jolly
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
Lord Teverson
Lord Bishop of Truro
Lord Waldegrave of North Hill
Cumberland
Lord Henley
Lord Inglewood TD DL
Lord Rea
Cumbria
Lord Blencathra
Lord Hutton of Furness
Lord Liddle
Derbyshire
Lord Bishop of Derby
Devon
Baroness Browning
Lord Burnett
Baroness Butler‑Sloss GBE
Lord Bishop of Exeter
Baroness Fookes DBE
Lord Greenway
Lord Kakkar
Lord Owen CH
Baroness Wilcox
Dorset
Lord Best OBE
Lord De Mauley TD
Lord Fellowes of West Stafford
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon QPM
Lord Moynihan
Lord Neill of Bladen QC
Lord Plumb DL
Baroness Sharples
County Durham
Lord Crisp
Lord Dixon DL
Lord Eden of Winton PC
Baroness Grey‑Thompson
Baroness Quin
Lord Sawyer
Baroness Sherlock
Essex
Lord Black of Brentwood
Lord Dixon‑Smith DL
Lord Gold
Lord Hanningfield
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
Lord Sheppard of Didgemere KCVO
Rt Hon Lord Tebbit CH
Lord Wakeham DL
Gloucestershire
Lord Bichard
Lord Brennan QC
Lord Bishop of Bristol
Lord Carey of Clifton
Lord Cope of Berkeley
Baroness Corston
Baroness Fritchie DBE
Lord Bishop of Gloucester
Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield
Lord Janvrin
Lord Mancroft
Baroness Oppenheim‑Barnes PC
Lord Willoughby de Broke DL
Hampshire
Lt‑Col the Viscount Allenby of Megiddo
The Viscount Chandos
Lord Chidgey
Lord Judd
Lord Northbrook
Lord Ribeiro
The Earl of Selborne KBE FRS DL
Lord Stoneham of Droxford
Baroness Thomas of Winchester
Lord Turner of Ecchinswell
Lord Bishop of Winchester
Herefordshire
Lord Bishop of Hereford
Hertfordshire
Lord Clarke of Hampstead CBE
Lord Cobbold DL
Lord Feldman of Elstree
Lord Laming CBE DL
Lord Loomba
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth DL
Baroness Miller of Hendon MBE
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill
Baroness Tyler of Enfield
Isle of Wight
Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone DL
Lord Grade of Yarmouth
Lord Sharkey
Lord West of Spithead GCB
Kent
Lord Astor of Hever DL
Baroness Benjamin
Baroness Brinton
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Condon QPM
Baroness Emerton DBE DL
Lord Freud
Lord Howard of Lympne
Lord Imbert QPM JP
Baroness Noakes DBE
Lord Northbourne DL
Baroness Stedman‑Scott
Lord Swinfen
Baroness Trumpington DCVO
Lord Wood of Anfield
Lancashire
Lord Alliance
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Lord Birt
Lord Bradley
Lord Cavendish of Furness DL
Baroness Dean of Thornton‑le‑Fylde
Lord Haskel
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE
Baroness Hooper
Lord Lee of Trafford
Lord Bishop of Liverpool
The Earl of Liverpool
Lord Monks
Baroness Morgan of Huyton
Baroness Morris of Bolton
Lord Oxburgh KBE
Lord Parkinson
Lord Sheldon
Lord Storey
Baroness Taylor of Bolton
Lord Waddington GCVO DL QC
Leicestershire
Baroness Byford DBE
Lord Freeman
Lord Kimball DL
Lord Bishop of Leicester
The Earl of Rosslyn
Baroness Verma
Lincolnshire
Lord Davies of Stamford
Baroness Hogg
Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Middlesex
Lord Fink
Lord Kalms
Lord Popat
Lord Turnbull KCB CVO
Norfolk
The Earl Cathcart CB DSO MC
Lord Dannatt
Lord Fellowes GCB GCVO QSO
Baroness Hollis of Heigham DL
Lord Howard of Rising
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market OBE
Lord Bishop of Norwich
Baroness Rawlings
Baroness Shephard of Northwold
Lord Steyn
The Viscount Ullswater LVO
Lord Walpole
Northamptonshire
Lord Boswell of Aynho
Lord Donoughue
Baroness Knight of Collingtree DBE
Lord Lawson of Blaby
Northumberland
Lord Beecham
Lord Curry of Kirkharle
Lord Lloyd of Berwick DL
The Viscount Ridley KG GCVO TD
Lord Shipley
Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington QPM
Lord Vinson LVO DL
Lord Walton of Detchant KT TD FRCP DL
Nottinghamshire
Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC
Baroness Lister of Burtersett
Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Baroness Whitaker
Oxfordshire
The Earl of Arran
The Viscount Astor
The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO
The Earl of Caithness
Lord Chadlington
Baroness D’Souza
Baroness Deech DBE
Baroness Greenfield CBE
Lord Heseltine
Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE
Lord Jay of Ewelme GCMG
Lord Krebs FRS
Lord Marks of Henley‑on‑Thames
Lord May of Oxford OM
Lord Nash
Lord Bishop of Oxford
Baroness Perry of Southwark
Lord Rotherwick
Rutland
Baroness Berridge
Shropshire
Lord Brown of Eaton‑under‑Heywood
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE
Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS
The Earl of Shrewsbury
Somerset
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster GCB CVO
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells
Lord Cameron of Dillington
Lord Cotter
Lord Hill of Oareford
Lord Hylton
Lord Kestenbaum
Lord King of Bridgwater CH
Lord Mayhew of Twysden QC DL
Lord Patten
Lord Skelmersdale
Lord Strasburger
Lord Williamson of Horton GCMG CB
Staffordshire
Baroness Boothroyd OM
Lord Cormack
Baroness Golding
Baroness Heyhoe Flint
Lord Bishop of Lichfield
Lord Thomas of Swynnerton
Lord Tomlinson
Suffolk
Lord Deben
Lord Framlingham
Baroness James of Holland Park OBE
Lord Marlesford DL
Lord Risby
Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE
Lord Walker of Aldringham GCB CMG CBE
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe KB
Surrey
Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE
Lord Baker of Dorking CH
Lord Blackwell
Lord Bowness CBE DL
F.M. Lord Bramall KG GCB OBE MC
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton DBE
Lord Deighton
Baroness Doocey
Baroness Drake
Lord Grantchester
Lord Bishop of Guildford
Lord Hamilton of Epsom
The Viscount Hanworth
Lord Howell of Guildford
Lord Lingfield
Baroness McDonagh
Baroness Parminter
Lord Patten of Barnes
Lord Sassoon
Lord Saville of Newdigate
The Viscount Tenby
Lord Trefgarne PC
Lord True
Lord Wright of Richmond GCMG
Sussex East
Baroness Cumberlege CBE DL
Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint
Lord Renton of Mount Harry
Lord Skidelsky
Sussex West
Lord Ashcroft KCMG
Lord Higgins KBE DL
Lord James of Blackheath CBE
Lord Luce GCVO DL
Lord Malloch‑Brown KCMG
Baroness O’Cathain OBE
Lord Saatchi
Lord Sterling of Plaistow GCVO CBE
Lord Stern of Brentford
Lord Young of Graffham DL
Warwickshire
Lord Bhattacharyya CBE
Lord Bishop of Birmingham
Lord Borrie QC
Lord Bishop of Coventry
Lord Edmiston
Lord Hattersley
Lord Jordan CBE
Lord Morris of Handsworth OJ
Baroness Morris of Yardley
Baroness Seccombe DBE
Lord Taylor of Warwick
Lord Tombs
Westmorland
Baroness Neville‑Jones
Wiltshire
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
Lord Dobbs
Lord Eatwell
Lord Lucas
Lord Marland
Lord Stoddart of Swindon
Worcestershire
The Earl of Courtown
Lord Dear QPM
Lord Flight Lord Gilbert
Lord Jones of Birmingham
The Countess of Mar
Lord Spicer
Lord Bishop of Worcester
Yorkshire East
Baroness Afshar
Lord Haskins
Lord Parekh
Lord Prescott of Kingston upon Hull
Lord Archbishop of York
Yorkshire North
Lord Bates
Lord Brittan of Spennithorne QC DL
Lord Crathorne
The Viscount Eccles CH PC KCVO CBE
Baroness Eccles of Moulton DL
Lord Inge KG GCB DL
Lord Jopling DL
Yorkshire South
Lord Ahmed
Lord Adebowale CBE
Yorkshire West
Baroness Eaton
Baroness Gould of Potternewton
Lord Healey CH MBE
Lord Kirkham CVO
Baroness Masham of Ilton DL
Lord Patel of Bradford
The Earl Peel GCVO DL
Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
Lord Shaw of Northstead DL
Baroness Thornton
Lord Bishop of Wakefield
Baroness Warsi
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe
WALES
Brecknockshire
Lord Crickhowell
Lord Moran
Caernarfonshire
Lord Roberts of Conwy
Cardiganshire
Lord Elystan‑Morgan
Carmarthenshire
Lord Aberdare KBE PC DL
Denbighshire
Lord Colwyn CBE
Glamorgan Mid
Lord Davies of Coity CBE
Glamorgan South
Lord Brooks of Tremorfa DL
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Baroness Morgan of Ely
Baroness Randerson
Glamorgan West
Lord Anderson of Swansea OBE
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach
Lord Howe of Aberavon KT CH QC
Lord Williams of Baglan
Lord Williams of Oystermouth
Monmouthshire
Lord Brookman
Lord German
Lord Kinnock
Pembrokeshire
Lord Rowe‑Beddoe DL
Radnorshire
Lord Berkeley of Knighton
SCOTLAND
Aberdeenshire
Lord Kirkhill
The Lady Saltoun of Abernethy
Lord Sewel CBE
Angus
Lord Davidson of Glen Clova
Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE
Lord Lyell DL
Lord Watson of Invergowrie
Argyllshire
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG HON FRSE
Ayrshire
Lord Campbell of Alloway QC
Lord Lang of Monkton DL
The Earl of Stair
Lord Strathclyde
Berwickshire
The Earl of Home CVO CBE
Lord Palmer
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood
Buteshire
Baroness Ford
Lord Maxton
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale
Dumfriesshire
Lord Tanlaw
East Lothian
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk
Fife
The Earl of Dundee
Lord Elder
Lord Leitch
The Earl of Lindsay
Lord Moonie
Kincardineshire
Lord Glenarthur DL
Lanarkshire
Lord Evans of Parkside
The Earl of Glasgow
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston CBE
Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden KT DL
Lord Martin of Springburn
The Duke of Montrose
Lord Selkirk of Douglas QC
Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill DL
Lord Stewartby
Midlothian
Lord Hardie
Lord McCluskey LLD QC
Orkney
Lord Wallace of Tankerness
Perthshire
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG
Lord Mackay of Clashfern PC KT
Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Lord Trees
Lord Vallance of Tummel
Baroness Young of Old Scone
Ross‑shire
Rt Hon Lord Cameron of Lochbroom PC QC
Lord Haworth
Roxburghshire
The Marquess of Lothian
Lord Sanderson of Bowden DL
Shetland
Lord Lamont of Lerwick
Stirlingshire
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
Lord Nickson KBE
The Viscount Younger of Leckie
NORTHERN IRELAND
County Antrim
Lord Bannside (Dr Ian Paisley)
Lord Bew
Lord Browne of Belmont
Lord Empey
Lord Glentoran CBE DL
Lord Hutton
Baroness O’Loan DBE
Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve CBE FRA
Baroness Paisley of St George’s
Lord Rana MBE
Lord Trimble
Lord Eames OM
Lord Kilclooney
Lord Morrow
County Down
Lord Ballyedmond OBE
Lord Carswell
Lord Lexden
Lord Rogan
County Fermanagh
The Viscount Brookeborough DL
County Tyrone
Baroness Blood MBE
Lord Laird
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
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