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UK Conservative Party loses billionaire donor over ‘gay marriage’ push

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LONDON , March 5, 2014  – One of the UK Conservative Party ’s biggest donors is reportedly pulling his funding after the party created “gay marriage” last year. The billionaire banker, philanthropist and arts patron Michael Hintze is “fed up” with the liberal leanings of the current Tory leadership, reports the  Daily Mail . Hintze, a Catholic who has helped the Vatican restore valuable art works by Michelangelo, has donated at least £1.2 million to the Conservative Party and given loans of at least £2.5 million more since 2005, according to estimates by the  Daily Mail . The paper reports that Hintze is calling in the loans and has thrown his support into UKIP, “just as the party needs a fortune to pay for next year’s General Election.” The report did not specify that Hintze would be switching his financial attention to another party. Shakespeare quotes “a Tory insider” who said, “Michael is fed up with David Cameron and [Chancellor] George Osborne and doesn’t see why he s

UK govt backs down on forcing chaplains to conduct gay 'marriages'

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LONDON , May 16, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The UK ’s Conservative-led coalition government is under fire from both sides over its “gay marriage bill.” Possible cracks are appearing in the government’s determination to push forward with the bill, which has already passed in the House of Commons , in a change of heart over military chaplains. Earlier this week, Equalities Minister Maria Miller issued a statement that hospital and military chaplains would not be forced to conduct same-sex “marriage” ceremonies as part of their capacity as government employees. “Hospital chaplains will be protected in exactly the same way as any other clergy and could not be forced to conduct marriages of same sex,” Miller added. “They wouldn’t be able to conduct marriages of same-sex couples unless the governing authority of their religious organization of which they are a part had opted in.” David Cameron is pressing forward with the bill despite its lack of success. Opponents have long

Cameron pushing for gay ‘marriage’ over fear of EU court ruling: Nigel Farage

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David Cameron's picture on the 10 Downing Street website (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ROME, March 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Already stinging from criticisms that he has caved to an overbearing, anti-democratic European Union , UK Prime Minister David Cameron has initiated a sudden push for “gay marriage” in an effort to preempt a European court ruling that would likely declare the UK ’s current marriage laws discriminatory, according to Nigel Farage , the leader of the UK’s leading libertarian Eurosceptic party, UKIP . “In the 12 years I’ve been an MEP I have received a lorry load of communication from constituents, asking me to support this and oppose that,” Farage wrote this weekend in the Daily Express , “but never in all that time has anyone ever asked him either to support or oppose ‘gay marriage.’” “Of course, stupid me,” Farage wrote, “Why didn’t I think of that? There just had to be a European angle.” Farage described an unexpected meeting in Brussels with leading UK