But is there anything wrong with so frankly religious a premise?

The ceremony, however, cannot take place in religious premises.

Poll, 25 Nov 2011: The House of Lords is due to debate next month whether civil partnership ceremonies should be allowed to take place in religious premises.

The following years were unsettled and the traditional gate-keepers of the Kaaba temple, the Shabi clan, appropriated all the gold and silver in the religious premises.

Next year will see the first civil partnerships take place on religious premises, as well as the launch of a consultation into equal civil marriage.

Around 11am: Peers will debate an attempt to try to scrap the law allowing he registration of civil partnerships in religious premises.

Earlier this year we committed to making the changes needed to enable civil partnerships to be registered on religious premises, by implementing section 202 of the Equality Act 2010.

In March 2011, we published 'Civil partnerships on religious premises: a consultation' to invite comments on the changes needed to the relevant regulations.

The professor told the committee that the student might have misunderstood an argument he often made about the absurdity of making historical claims for land based on religious premises.

Legal secularists may fear that when facing arguments with religious premises, they have the deck stacked against them.