Britain's Prime Minister Plans Will Force All Churches To Perform Homosexual Marriages
The Daily Telegraph reports
The Prime Minister's plans for gay marriage could leave churches facing legal action unless they agree to same-sex unions, it emerged today.
Legal advice reportedly sent to David Cameron warns that church could be sued under human rights legislation if they refuse to allow the services to proceed.
Exemption granted to the Church of England by the Coalition Bill to prevent it having to conduct gay marriages is "eminently challenge-able" in the European Court of Human Rights.
It also warns that the Government's insistence that protections put in place for other religious groups who don't want to marry homosexuals could be undermined by evolving European human rights law.
The warnings, written by Aidan O'Neill, a leading human rights lawyer at centre-left Matrix Chambers, argues that churches that refuse to marry homosexuals would be banned from using council facilities such as village halls.
Details of the legal advice are contained in a letter Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Prime Minister, the Daily Mail reported.