mr. adrian smith who lost his job he spent an enormous amount of money in legal fees and had a 40% cut in a salary making a private comment. how are we going to protect people like mr. smith working in the public sector in this country? >> my honorable friend who i know takes a deep interest in these matters is entirely right to bring this up. i actually think the case is highlighting proves that individuals can express their religious beliefs and the court found that individual favor. i think that's important and players up another country should take clear note of that. [shouting] i'll give way to the honorable gentleman. >> i think the right honorable lady for giving way. she spoke about protections for ministers, but can she also the same two registrars in a number of mixed sex marriage should be expected to fall, will they be confident even if they declined to take on a preside the new same-sex marriage registration they will not lose their jobs or experienced negative employment consequences? >> my honorable friend will know those who are civil registrars by public servants and the

the minister has referred to the protections in the bill, but we have already seen the case of mr adrian smith, who lost his job, spent an enormous amount of money on legal fees, and suffered a 40% cut in his salary after making a private comment on a facebook site. how, in future, are we to protect people like mr smith who are working in the public sector up and down the country? >> my honorable friend, who i know takes a deep interest in these matters, is entirely right to raise that point, but the case he has highlighted proves that individuals can express their religious beliefs. the court found in that individual's favour, which i think is important and should be noted by employers throughout the country. >> the minister has spoken about protections for religious ministers. can she offer the same protections to registrars? given that the number of mixed- sex marriages should not be expected to fall, can registrars be confident that even if they decline to take on and preside over the new same- sex marriage registrations, they will not lose their jobs or experience negative employment cons

mr. adrian smith who lost his job he spent an enormous amount of money in legal fees and had a 40% cut in a salary making a private comment. how are we going to protect people like mr. smith working in the public sector in this country? >> my honorable friend who i know takes a deep interest in these matters is entirely right to bring this up. i actually think the case is highlighting proves that individuals can express their religious beliefs and the court found that individual favor. i think that's important and players up another country should take clear note of that. [shouting] i'll give way to the honorable gentleman. >> i think the right honorable lady for giving way. she spoke about protections for ministers, but can she also the same two registrars in a number of mixed sex marriage should be expected to fall, will they be confident even if they declined to take on a preside the new same-sex marriage registration they will not lose their jobs or experienced negative employment consequences? >> my honorable friend will know those who are civil registrars by public servants and the

mr. adrian smith who lost his job, who spent an enormous amount of money in legal fees and had a 40% cut in his salary for making a private comment on a facebook site. how are we going to protect people like mr. smith, work neglect public sector, up and down this country? >> my honorable friend who i know takes a very deep interest in these matters, is entirely right to bring this up. but i actually think the case he is highlights proves that individuals can express their religious beliefs and the court found in that individual's favor. i think that's important, and i think that employers up and down the country should take clear note of that. i'll give way to the honorable gentleman. >> she spoke about protections for religious ministers. can she offer the same protections to registrars? and as the number of same-sex marriage shouldn't be expected to fall, will they be confident if they decline to take on and preside at the new same-sex marriage registration they'll will not lose their jobs or experience negative employment consequences? >> my honorable friend knows civil registrars are

mr. adrian smith who lost his job he spent an enormous amount of money in legal fees and had a 40% cut insalary making a private comment. how are we going to protect people like mr. smith working in the public sector in this country? >> my honorable friend who i know takes a deep interest in these matters is entirely right to bring this up. i actually think the case is highlighting proves that individuals can express their religious beliefs and the court found that individual favor. i think that's important and players up another country should take clear note of that. [shouting] i'll give way to the honorable gentleman. >> i think the right honorable lady for giving way. she spoke about protections for ministers, but can she also the same two registrars in a number of mixed sex marriage should be expected to fall, will they be confident even if they declined to take on a preside the new same-sex marriage registration they will not lose their jobs or experienced negative employment consequences? >> my honorable friend will know those who are civil registrars by public servants and the rec