Prime Minister is backing the legalisation of homosexual marriage

Last week the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan-Smith, urged the Prime Minister to recognise marriage in the tax system in an effort to encourage ‘couple formation’ and stable families.  The Prime Minister has pledged to introduce a tax incentive for married couples before the next election, but has not implemented it yet.

This sounds like good news for everyone who is rightly concerned about the shift away from Judaeo-Christian values in this country.  A tax incentive actively promotes marriage as an institution and awards married couples who are committed to raising a family in the context of mum and dad.

The Prime Minister’s speech at the end of the Conservative Party Conference was, therefore, a devastating blow.  He announced that he is backing the legalisation of homosexual marriage.  He said:

We’re consulting on legalising gay marriage.  To anyone who has reservations, I say, Yes, it’s about equality but it’s also about something else: commitment.  Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us; that society is stronger when we make vows to each other and support each other.  So I don’t support gay marriage despite being a Conservative; I support gay marriage because I’m a Conservative.

This was surely not what IDS was thinking of when he suggested the tax break.  Suddenly the attempt to strengthen fidelity and commitment in the bonds of marriage, upholding Christian values, has been knocked for six.  Legalising gay marriage is a big and dangerous step in the opposite direction.

The Government has indicated that it will hold a public consultation on how marriage should be redefined, with a view to legalising homosexual marriage by 2015.  This appeasement of the liberal gay agenda flies in the face of the opinion of the majority of British people who oppose homosexual marriage (according to the Official Government statistics released just a few weeks ago).

The Prime Minister is trying to create a stronger society but sadly, legalising gay marriage will only serve to take us further towards the chaos that ensues when a nation turns its back on God and ignores the time-honoured commandments it was built on.

The announcement at the Conference provoked this response from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Southwark:

Marriage by its very nature is between a man and a woman and it is the essential foundation of family life.  The state should uphold this common understanding of marriage rather than attempting to change its meaning.

A spokesman for the Church of England said:

The Church’s view remains of marriage as the life-long union between a man and a woman.

Dr David Landrum of the Evangelical Alliance, who has recently visited us here at Immanuel Community, said of David Cameron’s plan:

In seeking to re-define marriage David Cameron may have kept the coalition happy, but may also have signalled the end of conservatism.  If you can’t conserve the institution of marriage, what can you conserve?

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