Overstepping the mark? There is no mark!

Although Britain doesn't yet have that farcical thing known as  "gay marriage", it does have "civil partnerships", and now there is a push for laws forcing churches to administer, celebrate, and otherwise support the same:

Christian churches must be banned from performing any marriages if they refuse to hold civil partnerships ceremonies for gay couples, a Conservative MP has demanded.

Mike Weatherley has urged the Prime Minister to show no toleration to churches which turn away gays and lesbians who seek to marry in their premises.

The Hove and Portslade MP has in turn been criticised by Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton for "over-stepping the mark".

The Catholic Herald piece (ht: Sandra Miesel) adds:

The law must instead be changed to compel churches to register civil partnerships, said Mr Weatherley, whose constituency near Brighton which has one of the highest numbers of gay couples in civil partnerships in the country.

He told Mr Cameron to follow a precedent he suggested had been set by laws compelling 11 Catholic adoption agencies to assess gay couples as potential adopters and foster parents, although most of them have either since closed or left the control of the church.

Mr Weatherley said that the alternative would be to surrender to a "messy compromise" in which gays would remain the victims of inequality.

"I am becoming increasingly concerned about the inequality which exists between the unions of same-sex couples and those of opposite-sex couples in this country," he said in his letter.

"As long as religious groups can refuse to preside over ceremonies for same-sex couples, there will be inequality," he said.

"Such behaviour is not be tolerated in other areas, such as adoption, after all."

And the killer quote: "He added that until 'we untangle' marriage from religion 'we will struggle to find a fair arrangement'." Where does it stop? Well, it doesn't really stop at all. Until, I suppose, the entire facade of a post-Christian society build on the sand of political-correctness and the crowning of craven immorality as virtuous and necessary completely collapses.

One does not have to be apocalyptically-minded to ask: What other end can there be to such self-destructive madness?