{"id":5126,"date":"2013-01-01T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:23:46","slug":"13jan-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/13jan-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Gay Marriage’ Threatens Civil Liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans to introduce same-sex \u2018marriage\u2019 will erode civil liberties and invite unprecedented government meddling in public life.<\/p>\n

The Coalition for Marriage<\/strong><\/a> has warned of the following threats to civil liberty that are likely to arise in the wake of introducing same-sex \u2018marriage.\u2019<\/p>\n

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  1. Teachers in state schools will be forced to endorse the new definition of marriage. Those that refuse could be disciplined or even dismissed. Such action would be legal.<\/li>\n
  2. Parents will ultimately have no legal right to withdraw their children from lessons which endorse the new definition of marriage across the curriculum.<\/li>\n
  3. NHS\/University\/Armed forces chaplains could be lawfully fired by their employers if they express, even outside work time, the belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.<\/li>\n
  4. Foster carers could be legally rejected by local authorities on the basis that they fail to embrace the new definition of marriage.<\/li>\n
  5. Public sector workers could be demoted or dismissed for expressing support for marriage between one man and one woman.<\/li>\n
  6. Registrars who have a conscientious objection to the new definition of marriage will be dismissed unless they are prepared to act against their beliefs.<\/li>\n
  7. Churches\/mosques\/synagogues could ultimately be forced to perform same-sex weddings if a Government ban on such weddings in religious premises is overturned by the European courts.<\/li>\n
  8. The Church of England may have to disestablish or face the prospect of court action because, as the established church, it must provide a wedding to any person who is legally eligible to get married.<\/li>\n
  9. Faith-based charities could be banned from hiring public facilities if they refuse to endorse the new definition of marriage.<\/li>\n
  10. Clergy who disagree with same-sex marriage, but who are in a denomination which has no such objection, could be taken to court if the Government allows religious same sex weddings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    \nWRITE<\/strong>: to your MP and ask for your concerns to be forwarded to the appropriate minister. This is one issue where Government is allowing MPs to have a free vote, so writing to them has the potential to make a huge difference.<\/p>\n

    Further Reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n