LONDON, July 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Queen Elizabeth II has today given Royal Assent to the coalition government’s bill creating gay “marriage,” after the House of Commons approved minor amendments on Tuesday. The law will come into effect mid-2014. All three of the main parties in Parliament supported the bill, though there was significant opposition within the ruling Conservative party.
Colin Hart, director of the Campaign for Marriage said that Prime Minister David Cameron, leader of the Tory party, “needs to remember that the Coalition for Marriage has nearly 700,000 supporters, nearly six times the number of members of the Conservative Party”.
Religious leaders never ceased to warn throughout the process that the government’s assurances that clergy would not be forced to participate were worthless in the current legal climate. Legislative safeguards, they said, can be overturned by a single decision of the European Court of Human Rights. Hart warned that the legislation has …More