Contradictions surround marriage referendum

A number of questions have not been not clarified on the Referendum Commission’s website: The Constitution does not say that marriage has to be between a man and a woman; that is how the law defines it.

The Government can change marriage legislation to facilitate same-sex marriage. Yet, the Commission does not give reasons why we are having a marriage referendum.

The Government calls it the ‘marriage equality referendum’, the Referendum Commission calls it the ‘marriage referendum’.