The Sun for example triumphantly ran as their front page headline after the Lords rejected the abolition, 'Blair is beaten on gays'. Of course this the same Sun newspaper who regularly ran headlines about "poofs", "filth" and "perverts" whenever they would publicly out someone as gay.
So not much of a surprise.
One journalist of note meanwhile also penned a column about how children shouldn't be "taught some rubbish about homosexual marriage being the same as normal marriage."