Editing Norman Tebbit (section)

====Homosexuality====
In a letter to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' in November 1998, Tebbit said homosexuals should be barred from being Home Secretary.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/11/02/nteb02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030523052202/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1998%2F11%2F02%2Fnteb02.html |archive-date=23 May 2003 |first=George |last=Jones |title=Keep gays out of top Government jobs, says Tebbit |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=2 November 1998 |access-date=5 October 2013 |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref> A Conservative Party spokesman said Tebbit was "out of touch" and the official spokesman for [[William Hague]], then Conservative Party leader, said Hague disagreed with Tebbit.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/11/03/nteb03.html=/archive/1998/11/02/nteb02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030512012645/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1998%2F11%2F03%2Fnteb03.html |archive-date=12 May 2003 |first=Robert |last=Shrimsley |title=Tory leaders reject Tebbit's views on gays |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=3 November 1999 |access-date=5 October 2013 |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2013, he wrote in his ''Telegraph'' blog that his views concerning whether a homosexual person could be Home Secretary had changed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100217539/ignore-the-squeaks-from-the-timid-its-time-to-enact-the-referendum-bill/?ico=^editors_choice|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091157/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100217539/ignore-the-squeaks-from-the-timid-its-time-to-enact-the-referendum-bill/?ico=%5Eeditors_choice|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Ignore the squeaks from the timid. It's time to enact the EU referendum bill| date=17 May 2013| access-date= 4 February 2022 |location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

In 2004, he opposed the British Government's [[Civil Partnership Act 2004]]. In an interview for ''[[The Big Issue]]'' in May 2013, Lord Tebbit said that the coalition government's determination to pass the [[Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill]] had alienated grassroots Tories. He also speculated that it could mean that a lesbian queen could give birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination, and that the legislation might allow him to marry his own son to escape [[Inheritance Tax (United Kingdom)|inheritance tax]].<ref name="bigissue">{{cite web |last1=Delaney |first1=Sam |title=Lord Tebbit: Gay marriage, a lesbian queen – full interview |url=https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/lord-tebbit-gay-marriage-lesbian-queen-full-interview/ |publisher=The Big Issue |access-date=4 February 2022 |date=30 May 2013}}</ref>

In 2018, Tebbit said that he would not attend services at [[St Edmundsbury Cathedral]] conducted by new dean [[Joe Hawes]], because of Hawes' civil partnership with another clergyman. Tebbit described Hawes as a "sodomite". Hawes said that he felt "absolutely no ill will" towards Tebbit for his comments and stated: "I have always admired the way in which Lord Tebbit has cared for his wife with such devotion following the Brighton bomb."<ref>{{cite news|title=New dean feels 'no ill will' towards Lord Tebbit following controversial 'sodomite' comment|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/new-dean-feels-no-ill-will-towards-lord-tebbit-following-controversial-sodomite-comment-1-5517711|work=East Anglian Daily Times|date=14 May 2018|access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref>