UK Equality Minister: Church’s opposition to same sex marriage is ‘Dark Age’ homophobia

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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/11/uk-equality-minister-churchs-opposition-to-same-sex-marriage-is-dark-age-homophobia/


Lynne Featherstone is the minister for equality

Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat minister for equality has said that the language the Church of England and the Catholic Church has used is homophobic and that the views that the leaders are expressing belong in the Dark Ages.

Mrs Featherstone told the Sunday Times: “This is about love and commitment and things that are good for society and families; it is a matter of celebrating love and commitment.” She added :“I have heard homophobic language used in connection with this very loving and progressive step.” She said the language use “belongs in the Dark Ages”.

“This is a live-and-let-live policy,” Mrs Featherstone told the newspaper . “We have no wish to cross over into territory that is not ours, no desire to stop those who believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

“They [the opponents] do not have to agree with this. But we will have to agree to disagree because for those who want to express their love in a civil marriage, then I think the state is here to facilitate that and to encourage it and rejoice in it.”

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1. Much Too Sensible

for right wing Americans. People in the U.K. for the most part are not religious. Used to be the joke about how difficult it was to find candidates for the position of Archbishop of Canterbury who believed in god.

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2. I know, right?

I immediately noted to myself that this was a reasonable call out - and that in America you would never hear it.