Dave Walker displays his incisive cartoon skills in this explanation of why only two of the twenty five bishops in the House of Lords voted on the amendment to allow civil partnership services in churches.
Here’s how the bishops voted:
Bishop of Bath and Wells
Bishop of Blackburn
Bishop of Bradford – Against
Bishop of Bristol
Archbishop of Canterbury
Bishop of Chester
Bishop of Chichester
Bishop of Durham
Bishop of Exeter
Bishop of Gloucester
Bishop of Hereford
Bishop of Leicester
Bishop of Lichfield
Bishop of Lincoln
Bishop of Liverpool
Bishop of London
Bishop of Manchester
Bishop of Newcastle – For
Bishop of Norwich
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
Bishop of Salisbury
Bishop of Southwark
Bishop of Wakefield
Bishop of Winchester
Archbishop of York
The Bishop of Winchester, the Right Rev Michael Scott Joynt, was unable to be present due to “unbreakable prior commitments”. He told Ruth Gledhill, “I regret enormously the vote last night.”
The presence of the bishops last not pivotal as the amendment was by a vote of 95 to 21. When their vote is pivotal, as in defeating the new equality law, they turn out in numbers.