Governments should not stand in the way of religious organisations that wish to allow homosexuals to marry in church, the Conservatives have suggested.

Since 2005, same sex couples have been able to enter into civil partnerships, which give them the same legal rights as married people.

Nick Herbert, the front bencher and first homosexual man to be selected to become a Tory MP [sic], said that the Conservatives were sympathetic to churches, such as the Quakers, who wanted to offer homosexual couples religious wedding ceremonies but were currently barred by law from doing so.

Party insiders said that the Conservatives were sympathetic to churches, such as the Quakers, who wanted to offer homosexual couples religious wedding ceremonies but were currently banned from doing so.

• Full story at the Daily Telegraph.

• Filed under Elections, Scottish Christian News Monitor, Sexuality.