The petition campaign was the largest and most successful collection of signatures ever carried out in the country of 580,000 households against a proposed change of law, said organizers.
Should it be granted Royal Assent “in its present form,” the 17 Christian ministers said, the bill will “isolate hundreds of thousands of young students and workers across the country who hold a fuller view of marriage based on religion or a traditional view.”
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.
“We want to give our staff the tools to know what to do should an incident of homophobic bullying occur," said St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School headmaster Sarah Crouch.
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.