Lord Norman Tebbit A conservative member of the House of Lords has expressed worries that marriage equality could lead to a lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination. Lord Tebbit told the Big Issue magazine that the legislation could also allow him to marry his son to escape inheritance tax. Tebbit, who said that ministers have "fucked up" by alienating Tory grassroots, accused Downing Street of forcing through the legislation with little thought. "The government discussed it for 20 minutes on the morning of its announcement," he told the Big Issue. "They'd done no work on it beforehand." He adds: "I said to a minister I know: have you thought this through? Because you're doing the law of succession, too. "When we have a queen who is a lesbian and she marries another lady and then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child, is that child heir to the throne?" Tebbit also joked that the change could allow parents to marry their children as a way of avoiding inheritance tax. "It's like one of my colleagues said: we've got to make these same sex marriages available to all. It would lift my worries about inheritance tax because maybe I'd be allowed to marry my son. Why not? Why shouldn't a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn't two elderly sisters living together marry each other?"
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First published: Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 - 9:20am