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UK’s right-leaning party doubles down on opposition to gay ‘marriage’ after appearing to backtrack

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LONDON , March 19, 2014  – The leader of the UK ’s right-leaning party denied making comments attributed to him in an article by a homosexualist news agency in which he allegedly said his party would not campaign to overturn same-sex “marriage” in the general election next year. According to  PinkNews , Nigel Farage , head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) , also said his party would remove the legal status of Christian weddings, requiring believers to attend both a religious and civil ceremony. UKIP leader Nigel Farage But in a statement posted to  UKIP’s website  Wednesday, Farage denies making the remarks. “The statement attributed to me yesterday was not made by me and not approved by me. It was a draft by a staff member that should never have been sent out,” he explained. The remarks attributed to Farage by the  PinkNews  article had shocked many because UKIP campaigned strongly against same-sex “marriage” and won support on the issue....

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 d...

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 ...

UKIP set to cause ‘political earthquake’ as governing Conservatives flounder on Immoral Homosexuality

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 In Britain , local council elections are seen as a window into the political future, and last week’s surge by Nigel Farage ’s United Kingdom Independence Party has the ruling Conservative Party deeply worried.  UKIP has been attracting former Tories - both voters and MPs - disillusioned with Prime Minister David Cameron ’s “modernizing” efforts that have included a bill for “gay marriage” and broken promises on a European referendum.  Nigel Farage Nigel Farage is said to be “jubilant” after Friday’s poll results that saw UKIP electing 147 councillors, of whom 139 were gains. He called it a sign of a “sea change” in British politics and declared that UKIP is now the “official opposition.” This was literally true in Lincolnshire, where UKIP totally replaced the Conservatives in 16 seats. By comparison, Labour, the official Official Opposition party, said it was doing “reasonably” having won 35 local seats. Despite Tory accusations that UKIP is nothing more...

Lawsuits against churches ‘inevitable’ with gay ‘marriage’ law: UK Independence Party

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LONDON, December 10, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If churches are forced by new legislation or by civil suits to conduct homosexual “marriage” ceremonies against their beliefs, it would constitute “a piece of tyranny by which the rights of hundreds of thousands, millions even, of people of faith … will be ruthlessly trampled upon,” said the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). The Cameron government has announced that same-sex “marriage” legislation will be introduced next week. David Cameron 's government has announced that gay "marriage" legislation will be introduced next week. But in a statement issued November 15th, UKIP warned that the writing is on the wall for churches if the government introduces legislation creating gay “marriage.”  It is “inevitable that gay couples will seek the right to marry in Church and that Churches will refuse to permit them to do so,” said UKIP. Despite the government’s assurances, “there will, very soon after the int...