Split among Tories on gay ‘marriage’ a ‘disaster for Cameron,’ says top marriage campaigner
David Cameron, Leader of the Conservative Party, United Kingdom, Photo credit: Wikipedia ) LONDON, February 5, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – With the passage of the government’s gay “marriage” bill today, Prime Minister David Cameron ’s days as leader of the Conservative Party may be numbered, according to a top marriage campaigner and one of the UK's leading newspapers. The bill passed overwhelmingly earlier this evening, but at the cost of the cohesion of the party, and possibly the next general election. In tonight’s vote, the Daily Mail reports that of 303 Tory MPs in the House, 139 voted against the wishes of their leader, a sign that the Conservative Party is struggling with a crisis of unity. Today Cameron, faced with the biggest Tory rebellion in the party’s history, was forced to rely on support from political rivals Labour and the Liberal Democrats to pass his legislation. The majority of those refusing to support “gay marriage” were backbenchers, but the