Lord Tebbit used to be the Conservative party chairman (and he also used to be in Maggie Thatcher's cabinet). Anyway, he's got some colourful opinions on gay marriage. When Tebbit stood down from the Commons in 1992, he was succeeded by Iain Duncan Smith, who support gay marriage. See, Norman, you're making Iain Duncan Smith look progressive. The salient points that Mr Tebbit was making in a recent interview were these:

On gay marriage: “What? I mean, steady on chaps. Let’s get a grip on reality. - Oh dear.

“I think that that springs partly from Coalition games that if you give us reform of the House of Lords which makes sure that there’s always a blocking minority of Liberals in the electoral system which we shall devise, we will give you the re-drawing of the constituency boundaries. And if you don’t, we won’t." - David Cameron has been broadly supportive for many years, so this seems like quite a strange conspiracy theory.

He questioned why there was not “more discussion about whether it’s in the best interests of children that they should be brought up in civil partnerships or so-called gay marriage and I think too little attention has been paid to that”. - Numerous studies, and the head of Barnardo's, and common sense, have all shown that gay parents can make equally competent parents as straight people. Sorry, so-called straight people when they're being so-called parents.

He said: “When I get extremely irritated about it, I say: There is no inequality. Any male can marry, barring the restrictions on consanguinity, any female. Any female can marry any male. I’m terribly sorry sir, you want to do something that I don’t wish to do. That’s your problem, not my problem.” - When we get extremely irritated, we like to imagine we live in a country where we can marry whomever we choose, even if Lord Tebbit doesn't want to do it.