Sketch: Woman Dumps Husband For Husband! Refusing to give a bill a second reading, he cried, "would be like pushing the delete button before you've even read the email!" It was not the sort of analogy you expect to hear in the House of Lords, and some peers looked distinctly unimpressed. This was understandable. Among the more traditionally minded, opposition to email remains stout. In their eyes, email threatens to redefine correspondence. For centuries, correspondence has been a letter between a man and a woman. Why the need for this sudden change? Why the rush? No one was calling for email 20 years ago. Hadn't they paused to consider the effect that email might have on children? Lord Brennan, a Labour peer, explained his opposition to gay marriage. He was worried, he said, about "the "what next" factor." In the future, he speculated unhappily, marriage might be redefined still further, so that instead of uniting two people it united three. If nothing else, such a change would be excellent news for editors of tabloids. It would open up a whole new avenue of kiss-and-tells. Man Sleeps With Wife Behind Wife's Back. Woman Dumps Husband to Run Off With Husband. Bad news for the Spice Girls, though, who would have to re-record their most famous romantic ballad as Three Become Two. Lord Alli, a Labour peer, voiced his support for the bill. Gay couples had waited far too long, he said, for the right to tell mother-in-law jokes. As the debate drew towards a close, Lord Tebbit reitered his widely reported concerns about the possible effect on the law of royal succession, namely that the country could one day be ruled by the test tube baby of a lesbian queen. Baroness Stowell of Beeston attempted to reassure him that no such eventuality was possible. "Isn't that discrimatory?" demanded Lord Tebbit. Baroness Stowell replied that even if it was, the Government had no plans to change the law in that regard. A spokesman for the royal test tube baby community was unavailable for comment.