Scotland: Muslims join Evangelicals in fighting same-sex marriage bill

Scotland: Muslims join Evangelicals in fighting same-sex marriage bill

Via TNT Magazine:
Religious groups in Scotland are mounting a campaign to block the Scottish government's proposals to introduce same-sex marriage.

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Scottish Muslims have also threatened a withdrawal of support for the Scottish National Party (SNP) should the definition of marriage be redefined to include gay couples.

Salah Beltagui, of the Muslim Council of Scotland, said: “Generally, support for the SNP [among Scotland’s Muslim Community] has been strong, but if this goes on, it might change things.

“If you go back a few years, Labour was getting the majority of the vote and after Iraq it eroded very strongly, so it takes one issue like that to change things.”

Beltagui added: “Our community as a whole are all of the opinion that the family should not be changed in definition. A family is a man and a woman and children."

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