The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

My books are all relationship-focused, so much of my inspiration comes from my own relationships and the issues and concerns that arise among my friends and family.

If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It'd be best if we can communicate often.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.