Gay weddings to be held in St.Featherbrain's church!

The Liberal Democrat minister for "equality", Lynne Featherstone, is pushing ahead with so-called religious gay weddings. Seeing as most of those campaigning for this novelty are either atheists or agnostics or revisionists, I'd say this was an attack on Christianity rather than a measure of that euphemism of equality.

Ms Featherstone, bless her, knows nothing about the Church. She is Jewish and a liberal. That makes her rather inadequate to pontificate on this matter. The only religious bodies to get excited about this are the Quakers and the Liberal Jewish synagogues. I've nothing against them offering whatever the wish to offer. What I do object to is Ms Featherstone trying to find a way to force the Church to adopt secular notions. The sacrament of Holy Matrimony is a holy estate between a man and a woman. What the state does is one thing. We may agree or disagree. She should leave well alone on matters of doctrine of which she apparently knows very little. Strange noises? Sounds like she consulted her boiler!

Secular society raises its ugly head

It would appear that the Conservative Party is no longer the Church of England at prayer. If fact, it is no longer the party of traditional values. Just as Tony Blair jumped on a vacuous pile of cliches in order to dupe the electorate in 1997, the Tories are rummaging around in the leftovers of the pile.

It is one thing to want to be as fair as possible to competing interests. All political parties have to be coalitions. However, when it comes to the rights of people, some are more equal than others. I certainly don't want to live in a country where homosexuals are pilloried for their lifestyle. Live and let live. However, that particular lifestyle is not consistent with traditional Christian teaching.

The Conservative Party is slavishly adopting the New Labour securalist agenda. Under Harriet Harman's purge of Christian doctrine one can only be a Christian in church. Isn't it weird? People like Harman used to bleat that Christians only went to church on Sundays, implying they got up to all manner of unchristian stuff on weekdays. Now they want Christians to keep the Gospel hidden in the vestry so as not to upset the New Labour horse.

The Mayor of Antrim, Adrian Watson, has been barred from standing as joint UUP/Tory candidate because of his views on gay couples staying in his guest house. He is quite rightly upset seeing as Chris Grayling has amplified similar views.

David Cameron needs to get a grip. He is fast becoming a man, not of principle, but of expediency. Much like Blair, who masters expediency over principle to a tee. Many people are upset about all this. I have my doubts about David Cameron and I don't like doubting people if I have to. He never really explained his need to divest his house of wisteria at the taxpayers' expense. And he railed against colleagues who he saw as far worse culprits. It all smacks of a schoolboy trying to explain away a misdemeanour to the headmaster. "There are loads of boys doing things worse than me, sir!".

I wish Cameron could respect those who hold to traditional views. Mr.Watson is not advocating discrimination, just that people's homes, regardless of whether they are used for business, should be places where personal conscience is respected.