Ahead of this week's annual Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, a BBC Sunday Politics poll reported the predictable and damaging pre-election finding that a large majority of Tory councillors believe David Cameron was wrong to introduce same-sex ‘marriage’.
The ComRes poll confirmed the results of last year’s survey commissioned by the Coalition for Marriage, which predicted correctly that the Conservatives would lose hundreds of council seats as a result of the Prime Minister’s determination to force through the legislation. The May local elections resulted in a loss for 300 seats for the Conservatives.
The latest poll has found that 60 % of Tory councillors believe the redefinition of marriage will make the party less electable.
Commenting on the poll, the former Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, wrote in the Daily Mail that the party had “abandoned traditional Conservative principles” and had focused on “fringe issues” such as same-sex ‘marriage’.
Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern said: “Our governing class has shown no regard for democracy. David Cameron has pushed the sexual rights agenda in the mistaken view that it will create a better world. But same-sex ‘marriage’ and the whole ‘sexual experiment’ has had disastrous results, producing an avalanche of divorces, families without fathers, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, sexually transmitted infections and infertility.
“The ‘sexual revolution’ has not brought about social progress. It has produced the very opposite – a regression to widespread family breakdown, relationship failures, degrading of women, the stolen innocence of childhood, addiction to pornography and a burgeoning sex trade. And yet David Cameron, Boris Johnson and many of the political elite cling to the false and dangerous belief that ‘sexual liberation’ is wanted by most people and that anyone who opposes it is a bigot.”
Andrea warned that same-sex 'marriage' will continue the slide with an increase in same-sex parenting, which means children will be denied the right to be raised by both a mother or a father. She added: “We will see homosexuality being promoted more and more in schools adding to confusion for children who will be encouraged to experiment, resulting in a range of negative outcomes.”
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