The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.