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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE: NIGEL FARAGE REF TO SAY 'I DO'
• NIGEL FARAGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I THK WE ARE OPENG A VERY BIG N OF WORMS HERE'
• NIGEL FARAGE SPEAKS OUT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND TAX AVOIDANCE ON NEWSNIGHT
• UKIP WOULD NOT OVERTURN GAY MARRIAG
• NIGEL FARAGE HEADS FOR ROW OVER UKIP'S ANTI-GAY ALLI
• GAY MARRIAGE SHOWS HOW GREAT OUR NATN IS - BUT UKIP'S NIGEL FARAGE IS STILL WORRIED
• NIGEL FARAGE 'ADMIRER' BLASTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ONT OF GAY MAN SHE'S FORCED TO LIVE WH MD THE AGE GAP
• CAMERON PHG FOR GAY ‘MARRIAGE’ OVER FEAR OF EU URT LG: NIGEL FARAGE
• EXCLUSIVE: NIGEL FARAGE TO CHANGE UKIP POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE AND RISK ALIENATG TRADNAL VOTERS
• UKIP WILL NOT OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE, FARAGE REVEALS AS HE LLS FOR FRENCH-STYLE SYSTEM WH SEPARATE LEGAL AND RELIG SERVIC
• NIGEL FARAGE BACKS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE SENATE NDIDATE
• NIGEL FARAGE NMNS FORMER UKIP PUTY MONCKTON'S MENTS THAT GAY MEN HAVE '20,000 SEXUAL PARTNERS' THEIR 'MISERABLE LIV'

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

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. "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.

"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.

NIGEL FARAGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I THK WE ARE OPENG A VERY BIG N OF WORMS HERE'

"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,.

NIGEL FARAGE SPEAKS OUT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND TAX AVOIDANCE ON NEWSNIGHT

Asked if he supports gay marriage at the moment, he said: "I thk we are openg up a very big n of worms here, and I thk there are some very, very big risks. But asked if he would support gay marriag if Bra left the ECHR - as Ukip mands - he said: "I do not support the ia of same-sex marriag, all the while we’re unr the spic of the European Court of Human Rights.

For his support base, and particularly his activist base, gay marriage is a very big issue and they are overwhelmgly anti. Ukip lear Nigel Farage has stggled to answer qutns about his stance on gay marriage and public displays of affectn between members of the same sex.

UKIP WOULD NOT OVERTURN GAY MARRIAG

When asked by Newsnight prenter Evan Davis, who is openly gay, if he would be fortable wh a married homosexual uple kissg public, the Ukip lear appeared to hate before sayg that he would not be bothered by .

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.

NIGEL FARAGE HEADS FOR ROW OVER UKIP'S ANTI-GAY ALLI

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, the lear of Ukip, is facg new accatns of homophobia his party over s lks wh anti-gay, far-right European policians and claims that he has backed a populist Polish prit who scrib homosexual men as "sodom" – whose party has shot up to 14% an Opium/Observer opn poll today – vowed last week to explo Conservative divisns over gay marriage, while sistg that his party "rpects the rights of gay people to have civil partnerships". The Liberal Democrats are on Farage is keen to portray Ukip as tolerant of gay people at home, vtigatns by the Observer show that is alliance the European parliament wh parti ntag policians who have exprsed open hostily to homosexuals.

GAY MARRIAGE SHOWS HOW GREAT OUR NATN IS - BUT UKIP'S NIGEL FARAGE IS STILL WORRIED

Farage himself has been lked to a mpaign Poland supportive of hardle Catholic media outlets that are strongly cril of September, Polish ee prs mpaigners produced a statement that they said was om Farage support of Father Taz Rydzyk, a Polish prit and founr of Rad Maryja and s associated outlets, whose statns stand acced of pumpg out strongly antisemic and homophobic material.

Last year Rydzyk greeted the arrival of the first gay Polish MP wh the words, "the sodom are g; is a really grave matter". Ukip, which has 11 of the UK's 73 MEPs, is the largt member of a group the European parliament lled Europe of Freedom and Democracy, which clus four members of the far-right, anti-gay Uned Poland party and ne members of the Northern League, the rightwg Italian Poland MEPs have strongly backed Rad Maryja. They left the European Conservativ and Reformists group – which Tory MEPs s – prott at the Tori' gay equaly agenda 2011.

League MP Massimo Polledri recently clared that "homosexuals have to go to the psychologist to feel better", addg that havg a gay son "would be like my dghter tellg me she wanted to be a nun or to marry a Morocn".

NIGEL FARAGE 'ADMIRER' BLASTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ONT OF GAY MAN SHE'S FORCED TO LIVE WH MD THE AGE GAP

The League was one of three parti which last month blocked a bill the Italian parliament that would have ma cement to hatred of homosexuals an Pankowski, thor of The Populist Radil Right Poland and a social science profsor at Collegium Civas Warsaw, said: "Rad Maryja is very strongly homophobic. "The pennt gay MEP Nikki Sclaire, who was expelled om Ukip for refg to s wh Northern League lleagu the European parliament, told the Observer that Ukip was still "whout a doubt homophobic".

"The party's ndidate the recent byelectn Croydon North, Wston McKenzie, said, days after Rotherham uncil removed children om Ukip-supportg foster parents, that would not be "healthy" for children to be adopted by gay upl. This now-faiar pattern of motivated reasong was first intified by nservative wrer Rod Dreher his law of mered impossibily, which scribed how progrsiv uld simultaneoly hold the views that gay marriage wouldn’t dimish relig liberty and that the relig liberty of opponents of gay marriage ought to be dimished.

CAMERON PHG FOR GAY ‘MARRIAGE’ OVER FEAR OF EU URT LG: NIGEL FARAGE

Nigel Farage has acced the media of unfairly highightg the views of a UK Inpennce party (Ukip) uncillor blamg the floods on the gay marriage bill, as he claimed the three ma polil parti were "sred wls" of his joked about the credibly damagg effect of fectors om the Conservative party jog Ukip after sayg "appallg and outrageo thgs":the views of the Henley-on-Tham uncillor David Silvter had not been a news story until he joed Ukip om the Tori, Farage said. "Farage's remarks were ma after Silvter claimed the untry had been "bet by storms" sce the passage of the new law on gay marriage bee David Cameron had acted "arrogantly agast the gospel".

Silvter said he had warned the prime mister of "repercsns" if gay marriage went ahead, and told BBC Rad Berkshire that his daily prayers nvced him the recent floodg was the nsequence. He also likened abortn legislatn to the the rad terview, which followed his ial claims about a lk between floodg and gay marriage a letter to the Henley Standard, Silvter said: "I don't have a problem wh gay people. Sunday People polil edor Nigel Nelson ngratulat gay upl who married and I hop they’ll be very happy – which is more than that other Nigel n sayCongratulatns to gay upl who married.

EXCLUSIVE: NIGEL FARAGE TO CHANGE UKIP POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE AND RISK ALIENATG TRADNAL VOTERS

The UKIP lear said the only way he might change his md on gay marriage was if judg at the European Court of Human Rights kept their nos out of .

Nigel Farage 'admirer' blasts same-sex marriage ont of gay man she's forced to live wh Md The Age GapThe new Channel 5 seri se two groups om oppose ends of the age spectm move togetherA self-nfsed Nigel Farage "admirer" blasts same-sex marriage ont of a gay man she's forced to live wh Channel 5's new experimental seri.

However, only tak two hours for 84-year-old Dee to claim same-sex marriage servic church are "wrong", before 24-year-old Jed reveals he is gay. Tyrrel says: "In church they're gog to start performg gay marriage servic for the public so 's gog to be more legalised.

UKIP WILL NOT OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE, FARAGE REVEALS AS HE LLS FOR FRENCH-STYLE SYSTEM WH SEPARATE LEGAL AND RELIG SERVIC

UK Inpennce Party (UKIP) lear Nigel Farage, who prevly claimed he would not expel UKIP members who ll gay people “disgtg, ” says same-sex marriag are “illiberal” and lack “mon sense” bee relig groups may be forced to perform same-sex weddgs. The webse reads: “Civil partnerships reprent an entirely mon sense way of allowg gay men and women our untry to register a formal way their long term mment to one another”. In May, Nigel Farage surprised polil mentators when he said Margaret Thatcher’s “open-mdns” was rponsible for today’s gay tolerance Brish society.

Speakg to the Telegraph, the UKIP lear praised former Conservative Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher, who died this year aged 87, for today’s progrsive “atmosphere to gay people Bra, ” sayg: “I have to say that Margaret Thatcher of urse helped enormoly wh her open-mdns. When remd of her support for Sectn 28, which prevly banned the promotn of homosexualy schools, Mr Farage said: “That was done bee she feared some of the very, very extreme left-wg elements wh the teachg unn – but Margaret Thatcher, her perd as our prime mister was one I thk of real advancement for gay people society they were not discrimated agast the way they had been by nearly every prime mister before.

In April, The name of a UK Inpennce Party ndidate Staffordshire appeared on an electn leaflet that mocks bisexuals, blasts the ernment’s same-sex marriage bill, and warns that will lead to explic “Homosexual Sex Edutn”.

NIGEL FARAGE BACKS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE SENATE NDIDATE

When the ‘Gay Marriage Bill’ be law, explic ‘Homosexual Sex Edutn’ will have to be tght to keep schools wh the law of the 2010 Equaly Bill. ROME, March 20, 2012 () – Already stgg om cricisms that he has ved to an overbearg, anti-mocratic European Unn, UK Prime Mister David Cameron has iated a sudn ph for “gay marriage” an effort to preempt a European urt lg that would likely clare the UK’s current marriage laws discrimatory, acrdg to Nigel Farage, the lear of the UK’s leadg libertarian Eurosceptic party, UKIP.

NIGEL FARAGE NMNS FORMER UKIP PUTY MONCKTON'S MENTS THAT GAY MEN HAVE '20,000 SEXUAL PARTNERS' THEIR 'MISERABLE LIV'

“In the 12 years I’ve been an MEP I have received a lorry load of munitn om nstuents, askg me to support this and oppose that, ” Farage wrote this weekend the Daily Exprs, “but never all that time has anyone ever asked him eher to support or oppose ‘gay marriage. Farage scribed an unexpected meetg Bssels wh leadg UK homosexualist mpaigner Peter Tatchell, whose se agast the Brish legal fn of marriage is about to be heard the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). UKIP has recently begun to acquire proment former members of the Conservative Party disillned wh Cameron’s “mornisg” program that clus the full implementatn of the homosexualist polil agenda.

Meanwhile, lears of the Sikh, Mlim, Jewish relig mori and of the Christian majory have all opposed the gay “marriage” proposal, wh one former Archbishop of Canterbury llg a direct threat to relig eedom. Today the Mlim Council of Bra issued a statement warng that the plan is “unnecsary and unhelpful” sce homosexual partners already enjoy all the legal rights and privileg of marriage. EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage to change Ukip posn on gay marriage and risk alienatg tradnal votersNigel Farage is preparg to risk alienatg tradnal Ukip voters wh a change the party's policy on gay marriageNigel Farage and Gay MarriageNigel Farage is set to announce a change Ukip’s stance on gay marriage which risks alienatg tradnal party supporters, Mirror Onle has learned.

Ukip is currently opposed to church beg forced to perform gay marriage ceremoni, but the party do support civil partnerships.