“We believe it is possible to win this vote in the [House of] Lords, and we would encourage Christians throughout the nation to pray for that result,” the Coalition for Marriage said following the vote.
Although it is likely to pass, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children told LifeSiteNews that the bill is “considerably less popular" in the House of Lords.
Military and "hospital chaplains will be protected in exactly the same way as any other clergy and could not be forced to conduct marriages of same sex,” said Equalities Minister Maria Miller.
U.S.-UK threats "of economic sanctions are not new experiences for us, neither is the claim to a superior morality convincing for peoples who have known the experience of chattel slavery in our past," the bishops write.