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Mike Weatherley , the Conservative MP for Hove , has called for churches to be banned from holding marriages if they refuse to perform civil partnerships for gay couples. He says that the idea will bring more equality for gay couples. In a letter (see below) to prime minister David Cameron , Mr Weatherley wrote: “As long as religious groups can refuse to preside over ceremonies for same-sex couples there will be inequality. “Such behaviour is not be tolerated in other areas, such as adoption, after all. “Until we untangle unions and religion in this country we will struggle to find a fair arrangement.” Mr Weatherley said that 2005′s Civil Partnership Act was an “uneasy truce” between religious groups and gay rights campaigners and that lawmakers knew an “inherent inequality” would persist. Hove, which neighbours Brighton, has a large gay community. The area has one of the highest rates of civil partnerships. Ministers say they plan to move forward legislation to allow civil partner...

Conservative MP Mike Weatherley is concerned about a matter of equality, and has written a letter to the Prime Minister to ask the Government to prohibit those churches which refuse to perform 'gay marriages' from performing marriages. His Grace was going to say 'heterosexual marriages', but that would be a tautologous. His Grace is pleased (kind of) to reproduce the letter:  The Rt Hon David Cameron MP – Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA 21st August 2011 RE: SAME-SEX UNIONS IN THE UK I write as Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade; a constituency which falls entirely within Brighton & Hove, the city with the most same-sex households in the UK. Like many of my constituents, I am becoming increasingly concerned about the inequality which exists between the unions of same-sex couples and those of opposite-sex couples in this country. As you are acutely aware, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 resulted in the introduction of Civi...

A member of U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron ’s government is calling for a ban on marriages at Christian churches if they refuse to also perform same-sex unions. Mike Weatherley and Prime Minister Cameron “As long as religious groups can refuse to preside over ceremonies for same-sex couples, there will be inequality,” wrote Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, in an August 21 letter to Cameron. While Weatherley’s proposal is currently a “minority view,” it “could quickly become a main stream point of view,” warned Neil Addison, national director of the U.K.‘s Thomas More Legal Centre. The U.K.‘s 2004 Civil Partnership Act , which legalized same-sex unions, forbade them from being performed in religious venues or from using religious imagery. But Cameron’s Coalition government has proposed an amendment to the 2010 Equality Act that would allow churches and other religious venues to perform same-sex unions if they choose. Critics have warned that the measu...