A senior Conservative MP has slammed the coalition Government’s proposal ‘to do away with traditional marriage’. On Thursday the Equalities Office revealed that it will ‘formally look’ at redefining marriage so that homosexual couples can get the same certificate as married people. The Government will also consult on plans to allow civil partnerships to be registered in churches for the first time. But Edward Leigh MP has questioned why the Government is trying to ‘mangle’ marriage, warning that it could have devastating consequences for those who adhere to the traditional definition. Mr Leigh, a former chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, described the move as ‘mangling the language of marriage so that, for the sake of the tiny number of gay people who prefer marriage to civil partnership, everyone else in society must have the definition of their own marriage altered forever.

Pray: that the Government will not abandon widely held views of marriage to favour a small minority. (Ro.7:22)

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