Gay marriage foes unite in the UK
Equal rights campaigners have labelled a new coalition of gay marriage opponents as ‘out of touch’.
The Coalition for Marriage, hosted by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey and Christian Institute director Colin Hart, was launched in London last week.
“The Coalition for Marriage is intolerant and out of touch. Its support for the ban on gay marriage is homophobic and discrimination,” Equal Love campaigner Peter Tatchell said.
“Coalition members are entitled to believe that same-sex marriages are wrong, but they are not entitled to demand that their opposition… should be imposed on the rest of society and enforced by law.”
In September 2011, it was announced that the coalition Government would legislate for same-sex marriages by 2015.
Carey told The Daily Mail that the Government did not have the right to legalise same-sex marriage.
“[The proposal] constitutes one of the greatest political power grabs in history,” he claimed.
Crissy you are a laugh! Who are you to have a say over my intimacy? Speak for yourself, not me!
The majority of Christians as the polls show, over and over, support same-sex marriage. But we know the majority of marriages are Civil with no Church involved. We also know that the majority of weddings around the world are not even Christian, but there are clergy who wish to marry same-sex couples. Should we go on? Yes. I guess there were no Roman soldiers around Jesus huh? A law in the Theodosian Code (C. Th. 9.7.3) was issued in 342 AD by the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans. This law prohibited same-sex marriage in ancient Rome and ordered that those who were so married were to be executed. For the first few hundred years after the death of Jesus, people simply did not care. There have been same-sex marriages in Ancient China, Modern Europe, and even now in New York you can get hitched! Marriage, for many people, has nothing to do with any Christian Church.
To quote from an Anglican Arch-Bishop, and someone who really understood discrimination and proudly supports marriage equality.
“To penalise someone because of their sexual orientation is like what used to happen to us; to be penalised for something which we could do nothing [about] — our ethnicity, our race. I would find it quite unacceptable to condemn, persecute a minority that has already been persecuted.” Nobel Peace Prize winner and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeLDsBPSzYg&feature=related
This campaign to change / redefine marriage is about hate, your right about that Dave!
Hate and disrespect for Christianity. I don’t know where you got ‘like Jesus’ simply did not care from. When the conservatives won control of the early church?
Civil partnerships provide same-sex couples with loving bonds, are you saying people who partnership don’t love each other, and they would love each other more if they got married? That’s stupid. Why do you need a bit of paper and society to accept your love for one another? It’s obvious you don’t like the church and what traditional Christianity and G-d stands for.
It is no churches business who I marry. It is only in recent history they have decided to involve themselves in Marriage. Jesus never said anything of the same-sex couples married around him. It took 349 years after his death for the law against it to be passed, when the conservatives won control of the early church. In the time of Jesus, people, like Jesus, simply did not care.
This is about hate, and the attempt to control the intimacy of others.