Queen cancels appearance after newspapers claim she was set to endorse gay rights
LONDON , March 11, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A claim made this weekend by the Daily Mail and ABC Australia On Line news, that Queen Elizabeth II will endorse “gay rights” and “gender equality” is being disputed today by both homosexualist campaigners and the Mail’s own editorial staff. An article in the Mail claimed, under the headline “Queen fights for gay rights,” that a charter of “values” for the 54 nations of the Commonwealth includes wording that is “being seen as including sexuality”. The Queen was set to attend a ceremony to mark Commonwealth Day , during which she was to sign the charter that sets out “core values” for all leaders of Commonwealth nations. The charter says, “We are implacably opposed to all forms of discrimination, whether rooted in gender, race, colour, creed, political belief or other grounds.” It is these unspecified “other grounds” that the Mail is claiming means “gay rights”. Today, however, doubt is growing that this coul...