Northern Ireland: Peer who compared homosexuality to bestiality quits
An Ulster Unionist Party peer has stepped down from his party after making comments describing gay marriage as “deviant”, and describing a Gay Pride march though Belfast as “offensive”.
Lord Maginnis, a member of the UUP for 50 years, and former MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, announced his resignation following reports that his recent comments on gay marriage had embarrassed party leader Mike Nesbitt, as well as other senior members.
The 74-year-old peer said: “I have agonised over the last three months. Currently there is no room for independent or logical thinking [within the party] and that does not suit me,” according to the Scotsman.
On the issue of gay marriage, Lord Maginnis of Co Tyrone had said he was: “concerned about young children, that they would be influenced by [gay neighbours]. This is not something private like your marriage or my marriage, this is something aggressive and demanding.”
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