ADAM AND stEVE

Today there will be a parliamentary vote on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill which will permit the marriage of gay couples.  The debate of the bill, which did not appear in any of the main party manifestos, will form a suitable distraction for all the real issues, such as the economy and our move towards yet another war, this time in Mali.   We are promised by the Prime Minister that no religious minister will be compelled to perform a same sex marriage if it is against his/her beliefs.  But it will take only one appeal to the European Court of Human Rights by a gay couple, claiming discrimination and a breach of their rights if they are not allowed to wed at their local parish church, for the promise, rather like the economy, to be broken.