MAIL ONLINE: Gay couples should be encouraged to adopt children, a Tory frontbencher suggested yesterday.
In a provocative speech that risked offending some Christians, Nick Herbert also said homosexuality may be 'given by God'.
He hinted that the Church was wrong to oppose gay marriage and should support gay adoption.
He also said a future Tory government would legislate to promote 'gay equality'.
This could involve bringing in beefed-up laws on homophobic bullying and hate crimes.
Environment spokesman Mr Herbert, one of a handful of openly gay Tory MPs, told an American think-tank in Washington: 'Whether it is given by God or set by nature, homosexuality isn't nurtured by doting mothers or weak fathers.
'It isn't a condition to be cured and it can't be willed away through prayer.'
Mr Herbert insisted there was no contradiction between David Cameron's outspoken support for marriage and his conversion to the gay equality agenda. >>> | Thursday, February 18, 2010
