{"id":1383,"date":"2011-09-20T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2011-12-20T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T15:28:59","slug":"gay-marriage-proposal-overturns-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/gay-marriage-proposal-overturns-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay marriage proposal overturns reality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gay 'blessing tent' at Cardiff Mardi Gras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have become accustomed to gay rights taking precedence over the right to express the Christian faith.\u00a0 Whether you are a counsellor like Gary McFarlane<\/a>, or Christian hoteliers like Peter and Hazelmary Bull<\/a>, or a registrar like Lilian Ladele<\/a>, you will find that the law no longer upholds the Christian faith when it runs up against the new legal steamroller of homosexual equality.<\/p>\n

But now gay rights is about to over-rule reality.\u00a0 Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone MP announced<\/a> in the safety of the Liberal Democrat 2011 annual conference that pairs of homosexuals will be able to enter into a marriage.\u00a0 A consultation on the mechanics but not the principle will begin in March 2012.\u00a0 The proviso that they will only be able to ‘marry’ at a registry office and not in church is carefully designed to silence opposition from the mainstream denominations – and also from Muslims.<\/p>\n

Christians must still oppose this measure<\/span> and point out the enormity of what is being done.\u00a0 Human Society has understood marriage to be the union of a man and a woman for 6,000 years.\u00a0 With the exception of the decadent West, it is still understood like that all over the world.\u00a0 What the\u00a0Government is proposing is a seismic shift in the definition of marriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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