In both the UK and US early forms of "equal rights" legislation has been worded in such a way that a church would not be permitted to refuse to perform a marriage, for instance, even if they disapproved of it (a Catholic church having to accept a divorced person being married, or gay marriage if that was legalised).
Evidence? UK equality law has always been stand-based, meaning that you're only protected from discrimination on certain grounds (e.g. race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability etc.), and 'being divorced' isn't one of them. And no UK "equal rights legislation" mentions same sex marriage at all.
The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regs 2007 and the Equality Act 2010 both have exceptions for religious groups, so you can't force churches to ordain gay priests, or mosques gay imams, though (quite rightly!), a church couldn't refuse to employ someone as a cleaner or accountant because they're gay.
No place I know of is saying that any church has to allow gay marriage in their organisation either.
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Evidence? UK equality law has always been stand-based, meaning that you're only protected from discrimination on certain grounds (e.g. race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability etc.), and 'being divorced' isn't one of them. And no UK "equal rights legislation" mentions same sex marriage at all.
The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regs 2007 and the Equality Act 2010 both have exceptions for religious groups, so you can't force churches to ordain gay priests, or mosques gay imams, though (quite rightly!), a church couldn't refuse to employ someone as a cleaner or accountant because they're gay.
No place I know of is saying that any church has to allow gay marriage in their organisation either.