"Conservatives"

[fpb]

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-mp-urges-government-to-force-churches-into-same-sex-unions?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4aa5467bd0-LifeSiteNews_com_Intl_Headlines09_08_2011&utm_medium=email

What is breathtaking is that no British news medium seems to have given this any attention.

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Re: P.S:

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

Um. Given that argument, surely it is completely outrageous that Muslims in the UK and many other countries are not allowed legally to have more than one wife: they may be wholly free to think of that as they will, but are not allowed to argue for it or practice it.

Re: P.S:

[fpb.livejournal.com]

They are not allowed to register more than one wife legally. That has nothing to do with what they actually do in their own home, and in fact it is getting chipped round the edges (a recent regulation, for instance, ordered that all marriages legitimately concluded abroad, including polygamous ones, are to be recognized).

Re: P.S:

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

But surely, if churches refuse to perform same-sex marriages, and are thus banned from LEGALLY performing heterosexual marriages - that makes no difference to what they actually do in their church? As far as I can make out from the article, there is nothing saying that there could not be a non-legally-validated form of marriage performed in church. And since the point of religious marriage is to bind two people together in front of God, and we're already agreed that the State should have nothing to do with it... why would the legislation mentioned matter?

Re: P.S:

[fpb.livejournal.com]

If you believe that is what will actually happen if and when such a law is enforced, I've got a couple of nice bridges to sell you. Muslims are left alone because those who make the decisions don't give a damn what Muslims do; and because some of them fear them. Look at the rhetoric used against the Catholic church here and now; do you imagine one British MP speaking in those terms about Muslims?