In the House of Lords, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, a former Lord Chancellor, moved an amendment requiring the bill to distinguish between marriage (same sex) and marriage (opposite sex). The common word marriage, he argued, would remove any discrimination, but the brackets would recognize that the two states were different.
为了分离分歧，人们已经做了很多机智的工作。在上议院，前大法官克拉什弗恩的麦凯勋爵（Lord Mackay of Clashfern）建议修订该法，区别婚姻（同性）和婚姻（异性）。他说，“婚姻”这个共同词汇可以消除任何歧视意义，但括号中的内容可以区分两种不同的状态。