NONE of the MPs that represent south Buckinghamshire gave their backing to same-sex marriages in an historic Parliamentary vote.
The Prime Minister David Cameron succeeded in pushing through plans to allow gay marriage, after MPs voted 400 to 175 in favour.
But 136 Conservatives MPs voted against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, including Wycombe MP Steve Baker, who is the only local MP to have publicaly declared and explained his decision.
Mr Baker said on his website that he believed the government should “get out of marriage” altogether as the current system is a mess.
He added Mr Cameron said just days before the general election that he had no plans to redefine marriage, leaving some traditional belivers in marriage with "cause for complaint".
He said: “The state should confine itself to providing one secular relationship which deals with the traditional property rights issues and leave private institutions to define marriage on top. That is how to deliver equality before the law, freedom to marry and tolerance for diverse views.
“Instead, what we have is a mess. It turns out the Bill does not even, for all the trouble it has caused, deliver equal marriage.
“It provides two relationships with the same name: one subject to consummation and adultery and one not.
"And it still leaves in place civil partnerships which are not open to heterosexual couples, something which would probably not stand up if tested.”
Chesham and Amersham MP Cheryl Gillan and Aylesbury MP David Lidington are also believed to have voted against.
Attorney General and Beaconsfield MP Dominic Grieve is understood to have abstained.
Buckingham MP John Bercow did not vote as he is the Speaker of the House.
