Gay marriage will 'undermine' Christianity
Legislating to allow gay marriage will undermine the Christian ideal of the family, a Roman Catholic archbishop has said.
In a pastoral letter to churches in his Archdiocese of Birmingham, the Most Rev Bernard Longley claims the Government was ignorant of the impact its proposals would have on children.
"Government policy cannot foresee the full consequences, for the children involved or for wider society, of being brought up by two mothers without a father's influence or by two fathers without a mother's influence," he writes.