Nigel Farage fends Ukip byelectn ndidate over anti-gay remarks | Nigel Farage | The Guardian

Contents:

• NIGEL FARAGE FENDS ANN WIDBE OVER GAY THERAPY MENTS
• NIGEL FARAGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I THK WE ARE OPENG A VERY BIG N OF WORMS HERE'
• GAY MARRIAGE: NIGEL FARAGE REF TO SAY 'I DO'
• NIGEL FARAGE HEADS FOR ROW OVER UKIP'S ANTI-GAY ALLI
• NIGEL FARAGE FENDS 'GAY NVERSN' ENDORSEMENT OM BREX PARTY'S ANN WIDBE
• NIGEL FARAGE FENDS UKIP BYELECTN NDIDATE OVER ANTI-GAY REMARKS
• NIGEL FARAGE ACCED OF ‘DUCKG’ GAY RIGHTS BY NCELLG LIVE LOUNGE TERVIEW
• NIGEL FARAGE DEFENDS ANN WIDBE'S 'POISONO' CLAIMS ABOUT 'GAY NVERSN'

NIGEL FARAGE FENDS ANN WIDBE OVER GAY THERAPY MENTS

Htg back, even wh a leak to the BBC, turned a molehill to a mounta and will now no doubt lead to a natnal bate, the like of which we haven’t seen sce the Belfast bakery lost a discrimatn se for refg to bake a pro-gay marriage ke, or the recrimatns after BA asked a staff member to stop wearg her cross. Farage said the document he obtaed mentns "Brex" 30 tim; "Rsia" 22 tim; "Donald Tmp" 14 tim; "Racist" ne PRIME MINISTER APOLOGIZES FOR TREATMENT OF GAY VETERANS, CALLS LGBTQ+ SERVICE BAN AN ‘APPALLING FAILURE’Fox News Digal has reached out to Coutts for ment as well as Farage’s spokperson seekg a py of the memo. 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.

“In that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg, and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” he said.

Is Nigel Farage Gay?

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

Nigel Farage has fend the Brex party MEP Ann Widbe, after she suggted science might one day produce an answer to beg Brex party lear also claimed that “many many” Mlims had more extreme views on homosexualy than Widbe. ”Widbe was wily cricised after she appeared to endorse gay nversn therapy an terview over the cricised the way she had been “hound” by the media and policians, and said they failed to show the same vrl to people of other said: “If we start to attack and nmn people bee of relig nscience we are gog to e all sorts of problems, not jt wh Roman Catholics but wh many many others of Mlim fah who have even stronger feelgs on this subject than Ann Widbe. ”When was poted out to him that homosexualy was a matter of fact rather than nscience, Farage said: “People’s views on are a matter of nscience.

Mr Farage told LBC Rad that reports Mr Farage would mpaign to abolish gay marriage were "absolute fantasy". 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.

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

A senr Liberal Democrat source said: "I don't see why Nigel Farage jt don't e clean on his views on gay marriage. For his support base, and particularly his activist base, gay marriage is a very big issue and they are overwhelmgly anti. He don't want to posn Ukip as a party agast gay marriage, but he wants to say to his party he is agast .

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. "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.

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

"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. 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.

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.

NIGEL FARAGE FENDS 'GAY NVERSN' ENDORSEMENT OM BREX PARTY'S ANN WIDBE

They left the European Conservativ and Reformists group – which Tory MEPs s – prott at the Tori' gay equaly agenda 2011.

A Uned Poland spokman was reported as havg said: "There is no place for homosexuals our party. "The Northern League also has members wh strong homophobic views. 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".

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. It has equently lled homosexualy 'a disease' and 'a major threat to wtern civilisatn'.

NIGEL FARAGE FENDS UKIP BYELECTN NDIDATE OVER ANTI-GAY REMARKS

They are a radil right splter group that pet for the signifint homophobic dience of Rad Maryja.

NIGEL FARAGE ACCED OF ‘DUCKG’ GAY RIGHTS BY NCELLG LIVE LOUNGE TERVIEW

"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".

Earlier this year senr Ukip MEP Roger Helmer equated marriage between two gay men wh ct. "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. Sign up for the View om Wtmster email for expert analysis straight to your boxGet our ee View om Wtmster emailNigel Farage has fend one of his party's MEPs after she was acced of "poisono bigotry" for suggtg science may one day "produce an answer" to homosexualy.

The Brex Party lear sisted the view was a "matter of nscience" after Ann Widbe, who was elected to serve the European parliament jt last week, appeared to endorse the wily-discreded gay "nversn therapy".

NIGEL FARAGE DEFENDS ANN WIDBE'S 'POISONO' CLAIMS ABOUT 'GAY NVERSN'

""She will have views on abortn and on homosexualy that will be very different to the views that will be held by many others, " he add. The Brex Party MEP was quizzed on an article she wrote about gay nversn therapy year, Thera May vowed to eradite the "abhorrent" practice of the therapy and the bet mister Penny Mordnt scribed as an "abe of the worst kd" Ms Widbe claimed that the possibily of changg sexualy should not be led out the future, and pared changg genr inty. Beg gay isn’t a disease to be cured.

Most over-70s Bra still feel unfortable about homosexualy, the Ukip lear, Nigel Farage, has polician ma the claim as he fend Roger Helmer, the Ukip byelectn ndidate Newark, who said a pamphlet om 2000 that homosexualy is "abnormal" and "unsirable". Helmer also qutned the ncept of homophobia, and pared allowg equal marriage to legalisg Cameron, meanwhile, gave a guarantee that he would liver a European Unn referendum as he urged floatg voters not to succumb to Ukip's belief that "we're all doomed" pledge echo his guarantee when opposn that he would hold a poll on the Lisbon Treaty – which never happened bee Gordon Brown had already ratified by the time Cameron beme prime have held up Cameron's failure to meet his promise as a sign the Conservative lear nnot be tsted to hold a referendum on the UK's EU Cameron ed an terview wh the BBC's Andrew Marr Show to sayhe was nfint of beg able to negotiate reforms of the EU and then hold a poll by the end of 2017. If he nnot secure ncsns om Bssels, Cameron said he would not "s on the fence" the subsequent referendum, suggtg he has not led out mpaigng for Bra to, fendg Helmer, argued that many olr people were not happy wh the ia of homosexualy, let alone the ia of gay people Ukip lear has repeatedly sistepped qutns about whether he supports gay marriage, retractg a statement om his party sayg would not repeal same-sex marriage told BBC1's Sunday Polics: "Roger Helmer is fightg this byelectn for ; he's somebody of 70 years of age who grew up wh a strong Christian Bible background.

He grew up an age when homosexualy was actually imprisonable, and he had a certa set of views which he mataed for many years which he now says he accepts the world's moved on and he's relaxed about.