Community Development Minister Wayne Scott is confident that his parliamentary colleagues will be united in support of amendments to the Human Rights Act he plans to steer through the House of Assembly, but the One Bermuda Alliance is yet to decide whether the measures will be subject to a conscience vote or the party whip.Mr Scott could not say when the bill will be up for debate or if it would be subject to party discipline when The Royal Gazette contacted him yesterday and referred us to the party whip Cole Simons.“I don’t believe it will be (debated) this Friday but sometime within the next couple of parliamentary sessions,” he said.Bills cannot be debated until at least two weeks have elapsed since being tabled. The Human Rights Act amendment bill was tabled on May 17.“If you look at all of the legislation that has been brought to the house it has been a unified front. Because we are doing things that have already been discussed and we are doing things in a unified manner,” Mr Scott said.“You will continue to see us doing our homework before it gets to the floor of the House. We are ready to debate this legislation, is it going to come up this week? That’s a question you are going to have to ask the whip.”Yesterday, Mr Simons said that the bill will be discussed by the OBA’s parliamentary caucus this evening.The Opposition Progressive Labour Party has decided to remove the whip and allow its MPs to vote their consciences. But PLP Leader Marc Bean has urged the MPs to canvass their constituents ahead of the debate.The OBA did not specifically promise to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination in its election campaign last year. But it did pledge to “strengthen Bermuda’s commitment to human rights for all, prohibiting discrimination in employment, goods and services and housing.”Mr Scott will be asking Parliament to prohibit age discrimination in the areas of provision of goods, services and facilities, and housing, to extend the definition of harassment to apply beyond the workplace, prohibit sexual orientation discrimination and to approve a number of housekeeping measures.Campaigners have long lobbied successive governments to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination.A fresh wave of lobbying in favour of the so called two words amendment began in 2006 following the bill’s failure when it was brought as a private members’ bill by then MP Renee Webb.