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Contents:

• UKIP WOULD NOT OVERTURN GAY MARRIAG
• GAY MARRIAGE: NIGEL FARAGE REF TO SAY 'I DO'
• GAY MARRIAGE ROW: UKIP PLANS TO RAIL DAVID CAMERON
• MY APPOTMENT PROV WE’RE A DIVERSE PARTY, SAYS UKIP’S GAY PUTY LEAR
• UKIP E CLEAN ABOUT WHY THEY REALLY OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
• UKIP SPENDS GAY MARRIAGE ROW POLICIAN
• UK STORMS ARE DIVE RETRIBUTN FOR GAY MARRIAGE LAWS, SAYS UKIP UNCILLOR
• GAY UKIP MEP DAVID COBURN SAYS GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS ARE 'EQUALY NAZIS'

UKIP WOULD NOT OVERTURN GAY MARRIAG

The now former UKIP uncillor David Silvter’s suggtn that there was a lk between legislatn on gay marriage and the current floods ed a great al of discsn about relig beliefs polics, as well as spawng the UkipWeather twter handle. 9% of Conservativ disagreed wh the tted statement: “It is a good thg that gay and lbian upl are able to enter to ‘civil partnership’ and have rights siar to married upl.

2% of Conservative supporters agree that gay and lbian upl should be able to marry, pared to 58. Still, seems UKIP’s opposn to gay marriage chim wh a majory of s supporters and wh many Conservativ.

Ukip has released a mi-manifto for Christians, sayg would extend protectn to those who want to oppose gay marriage bee of their relig document is published on the webs of some ndidat and the electn page of Christian Concern, a group that is agast abortn and same-sex manifto for Christians says Ukip would not seek to reverse gay marriage, even though the party was opposed to beg troduced. However, would offer special protectn to those who wanted to object to gay marriage or exprs other matters of relig nscience the urse of rryg out their says don’t plan to ‘un-marry’ lovg upl.

GAY MARRIAGE: NIGEL FARAGE REF TO SAY 'I DO'

Photograph: AlamyThis uld clu the Christian owners of a bakery who did not want to bake a Bert and Ernie gay marriage celebratn ke or Christian relatnship unsellor who wanted to unsel only heterosexual manifto says: “We will not repeal the legislatn, as would be grossly unfair and uhil to ‘un-marry’ lovg upl or rtrict further marriag, but we will not require church to marry same-sex upl. Nigel Farage has changed tack and announced that Ukip would not seek to overturn gay Ukip lear, who warned 2012 that legalisg gay marriage would force some church to nduct ceremoni that are "anathema to them", said his party would accept same-sex marriag if won the general ma his remarks an terview wh PkNews ahead of the formal legalisatn of same-sex marriag on 29 March. "Farage also said that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people were wele to jo Ukip.

"Farage's ments mark a signifint change of tack om his attacks on David Cameron over gay marriage 2012. The Ukip lear told the Sunday Polics on BBC1: "If we go for gay marriage we will force many lns of people this untry – many of the black evangelil church, many people the Mlim muny will be forced to a posn where they have to nduct ceremoni that are anathema to them.

Nigel Farage has sistepped attempts to force him to say whether he supports gay marriage, argug would be a matter for the Hoe of Commons to normally opnated Ukip lear appeared to want to avoid g down one si or the other partly due to divisns wh his party's ranks, and fears that whatever posn he adopts will alienate some of his issued a statement to Pk News two weeks ago, thought to have been cleared wh Farage, sayg the party was reviewg s opposn to gay marriage. Speakg on LBC rad, Farage highlighted the dangers of supportg gay marriage while Bra was the EU, sayg was likely the European Unn would force church to hold gay marriage ceremoni agast their said: "We are openg up a very big n of worms here, wh many very big risks. I n't prejudge what will happen there, but possibly forced to nduct gay marriag those church agast the will of vast majory of churchgoers.

GAY MARRIAGE ROW: UKIP PLANS TO RAIL DAVID CAMERON

"Prsed to expla his posn on gay marriage if Bra were not the EU, Farage said: "I do not support same sex marriag all the while we're unr the spic of the European urt of human rights.

MY APPOTMENT PROV WE’RE A DIVERSE PARTY, SAYS UKIP’S GAY PUTY LEAR

"However, he did say he did not believe retrospective legislatn, suggtg any marriag nducted after Saturday would not be clared null and void, the event of gay marriage no longer beg regnised by the was equally evasive when qutned on the issue durg the LBC bate wh Nick Clegg on Wednday.

"Ukip prevly said civil partnerships were a "monsense" way for gay and lbian upl to register their mment a formal warned: "Gay marriage is an entirely different thg altogether.

"Interviewed recently by Pk News, Farage was asked by a rear if Ukip would seek to abolish the marriag of gay and lbian upl entered to after 29 March 2014 s 2015 manifto,. We note that some gay rights activists are already talkg about takg legal actn Strasbourg to force this issue.

UKIP E CLEAN ABOUT WHY THEY REALLY OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

The Conservativ' turmoil over David Cameron's plans for gay marriage has been pound after Ukip pledged to explo their divisns and go after the vot of Tori who abandon the party over the signs that Conservative associatns are losg members their drov over what is beg dubbed the prime mister's "clse IV moment", the Ukip lear, Nigel Farage, warned that gay marriage uld "rip apart" the Conservative party. He plans to put the issue at the heart of Ukip's mpaign for the 2014 European parliamentary ernment set out s plans on Tuday to troduce gay marriage by 2014.

UKIP SPENDS GAY MARRIAGE ROW POLICIAN

It also tried to appease more than 100 Tory MPs planng to vote agast the legislatn by outlg a new "quadple lock" that will make illegal for gay marriage ceremoni to be nducted by the Church of England and the Church relig anisatns will be able to "opt " to holdg the law will also state that no one n be prosecuted for preachg the belief that marriage n be between a man and a woman a statement to MPs, the culture secretary and equali mister, Maria Miller, said: "Bee the church of England and Wal have explicly stated that they do not wish to nduct same-sex marriage, the legislatn will explicly state that would be illegal for the church of England and Wal to marry same-sex upl.

While Ukip wholly rpects the rights of gay people to have civil partnerships, we feel the prime mister's proposals will prent an afont to lns of people this untry for whom this will be the fal divisn between cy and ral is absolutely huge.

"Farage believ the gay marriage issue will serve his party well by highlightg the impact of the European urt of human rights on Bra and by showg Ukip n rally support around a touchstone issue.

UK STORMS ARE DIVE RETRIBUTN FOR GAY MARRIAGE LAWS, SAYS UKIP UNCILLOR

"But the gay marriage se is closely terwoven wh the European urt of human rights, as is so much of our life.

GAY UKIP MEP DAVID COBURN SAYS GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS ARE 'EQUALY NAZIS'

"If gay people want to have a civil ceremony that is fe by me, if they want to live together and love one another that is fe by me. Dunn Smh do not agree wh gay marriage, but he believ he needs to tread wh re bee, as a former Tory lear, he needs to show particular Church of England ma clear that the ncsn om the ernment did not go far Rev Tim Stephens, the Bishop of Leicter, said was "most troublg that the ernment and opposn have together their proceedg wh this measure led to divisn, not only wh the untry where polls nsistently show half the populatn agast this change, but also between the polil class and the vast majory of practicg relig people".

Archbishop Vcent Nichols, the lear of the Roman Catholic Church England and Wal, and Archbishop Peter Smh, the Archbishop of Southwark, said opponents of gay marriage should lobby MPs "clearly, lmly and forcefully, and whout impugng the motiv of others".

The most popular choice – 45% – was that gay people should be allowed to get married to each other but relig anisatns should not be required to provi weddg ceremoni to gay a further 28% of voters thought that gay people should be allowed to get married to each other and relig anisatns should be required to provi weddg ceremoni to gay means nearly three quarters of voters – 73% – want to allow gay marriage while ls than a quarter – 24% – do not. Only one six voters – 17% - thought that gay people should not be allowed to get married but should be allowed to form a civil Miliband moved to stch mours of divisns the shadow bet. "The gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell nmned the exemptn for the Church of England and the Church Wal as "a disappotg fudge" said: "There is no reason why the church should be treated differently om other fahs.