Former Snp Leader Calls for Gay Marriage Referendum

The HeraldOctober 12, 2011

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A FORMER leader of the SNP has called on ministers to hold a referendum on same-sex marriage.

Former MP Gordon Wilson, who led the party from 1979 to 1990, said same-sex marriage would "undermine" the traditional Christian understanding of the institution. He argued that if the issue of the 300-year-old Union with the rest of the UK is worth a referendum, so is over a millennium-and-a-half of Christian teaching and he called on ministers to hold one instead of simply consulting on same-sex marriages.

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Former Snp Leader Calls for Gay Marriage Referendum

Mr Wilson made the call in his position as chairman of the Christian-based faith charity Solas, which has issued a submission to the Scottish Government's consulta...

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