[wagglebee]

Faith schools could be required to teach that homosexuality was of equal value to heterosexual marriage and if ministers of religion were not properly protected they could be open to legal action for following their duty.

This is disgraceful!

[wagglebee]

Anglican Ping.

[PzLdr]

Benny ain't gonna be happy!

[wagglebee]

HA Ping.

[rockabyebaby]

Homosexuality in itself is a SIN let alone gay marriage. HOW can this abomination be of equal value to heterosexual marriages??? Did I wake up on a different plant???

[steve86]

We can't advocate violence on this site but when my priest is forced to bless a gay marriage, there will be a real likelihood of a physical rearrangement of the situation!

[PAR35]

Blair has his supporters here, but this proves that NO socialist government can be trusted.

Looks like it is time for a regime change in the UK.

[BW2221]

Will the blessing come from gay clergy? The Anglicans/Episcopalians seem to have plenty.

[IronJack]

I wonder what legal principle dictates that all citizens have the same access to the same goods and services. Certainly there is the false egalitarian principle of "tolerance" and all that rot, but I don't know where it is written that vendors have no power to regulate their own personal commerce.

[Seruzawa]

Regardless of anyone's stand on homosexual marriage, the idea that the govt can dictate any church's doctrine is simply totalitarianism.

Now we see where appeasement of the left always leads..... govt forced belief systems. Clergy arrested for disobeying govt mandated doctrine. The public yawns and changes the channel.

But, in a way it's deserved. After all, the main churches never said "boo" when the govt was going after the smaller "oddball" sects that were prevalent in the 70's. They turned a blind eye to govt interference with religions when they thought that the govt just was after non-mainstream religions. Now the crows have come home to roost. How shortsighted to not resist govt interference in religion... even if it was the moonies.

[I_Like_Spam]

The story isn't clear as to whether mosques will be subject to this regulation.

I can't see the considerable radical muslim population in the UK abiding by this, although I'd like to see the confrontation.

[Postal Worker with a gun]

I am waiting for someone to say something about the Boy Scouts. Most here know what the various levels of our government has done to them for their stance on this issue.

[Republican Wildcat]

Since the Queen heads the church and is the head of state, she should overrule this.

[SteveMcKing]

People have silently put up with gay politics for many years. The further they push it, the more reactionary response will occur when people decide they have had enough with perverts setting the agenda.

[marron]

No church can be forced to do anything, period.

Of course, you may have to do time. Paul did.

[BaBaStooey]

Here we go. This was the fight that was recently predicted in the National Review. Go against your religion, or lose your tax exempt status. Its happening in England, which is the country we fought to break away from in order to have freedom of religion. But don't think that the same thing couldn't happen here. The government's official chuch is atheist liberalism. And everyone must obey.

[hardworking]

Oh, oh, here we go. Just a matter of time until Christian teaching is outlawed and Islam is a required indoctrination, and yes I do see a connection. Hope I don't live long enough to see this and, at my age, I'll probably get my wish.

[hardworking]

This is simply the first step in having a government control, i.e. have the final say, about what a 'religion' can teach. You can bet the primary target will be Christianity.

[Zero Sum]

Well, that's what happens when the government owns the Church...

[A. Pole]

New Government proposals on equality could require clergy to bless homosexual "weddings" or face prosecution, the Church of England said yesterday.

Diversity bump

[The Mayor]

I know Pastors that would rather go to jail than to recognise never mind bless a gay marriage.