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“Rally speak­ers include Lord Carey and Anne Wid­de­combe, with the back­ing of David Davis MP.

“Many of these peo­ple opposed the gay law reforms of the last decade and now they want to block mar­riage equal­ity too. They’re intol­er­ant and out of touch,” said Peter Tatchell, coor­di­na­tor of the Equal Love cam­paign and Direc­tor of the human rights organ­i­sa­tion, The Peter Tatchell Foun­da­tion.

“Stag­ing a rally in sup­port of anti-gay dis­crim­i­na­tion reawak­ens fears that the Con­ser­v­a­tives are still the nasty party. It’s a PR dis­as­ter that under­mines David Cameron’s efforts to rebrand the Tories as mod­ern, inclu­sive and compassionate.

“If the rally organ­is­ers truly do believe in love and mar­riage, they should wel­come the fact that gay cou­ples love each other and want to get married.

“Accord­ing to the YouGov poll in June 2012, 71% of the pub­lic and 58% of reli­gious peo­ple believe that same-sex cou­ples should be per­mit­ted to get mar­ried in reg­is­ter offices. 70% of the pub­lic also sup­port reli­gious insti­tu­tions being allowed to con­duct same-sex mar­riages if they wish to do so,” said Mr Tatchell.

See the YouGov poll result in full: http://bit.ly/R7Yl5h

I’d like to think that my read­ers — and all UK wed­ding blog read­ers — are forward-thinking, fair-minded, good peo­ple. This is dis­crim­i­na­tion, pure and sim­ple. The Tories should look at the gen­er­a­tion who are get­ting mar­ried in this coun­try, right now, and realize we’re not a big­oted nation. We won’t stand for homo­pho­bia, and the fact that a rally like this is even tak­ing place paints the Con­ser­v­a­tive party as narrow-minded, old-fashioned and homo­pho­bic dinosaurs.