Gay marriage dominates the agenda for political, rather than ethical, reasons
 
In view of the devastation inflicted on the Tory party by the gay-marriage issue, it is remarkable how little interest has been shown in the story that lies behind David Cameron’s desperation to get a measure – that was not mentioned in his 2010 election manifesto – on to the statute book by no later than June this year.
 
As I recounted , the drive to get same-sex marriage into law was masterminded from 2010 onwards by an alliance between Theresa May, the Conservative Home Secretary, Lynne Featherstone the Lib Dem equalities minister, and gay pressure groups, led by one called Equal Love.
They pushed the issue forward, not in Westminster, but through the Council of
Europe, culminating in March last year with a day-long “secret conference”
chaired by Miss Featherstone in Strasbourg.

With the public excluded for the first time in the Council’s history, it was here that – with the active support of Sir Nicolas Bratza, the British president of the European Court of Human
Rights (ECHR) – a deadline was set for their planned coup of June 2013.

If, by this date, “several countries” had managed to put gay marriage into law, Sir Nicolas pledged that his court would then declare same-sex marriage to be a Europe-wide human right.


Hence the recent rush for several countries to oblige, including France, where gay marriage has brought thousands of protesters out on to the streets.

And hence last Tuesday’s unprecedented revolt in the House of Commons, when 133 Tories voted against their government.  

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/10080015/Its-time-we-knew-the-real-gay-marriage-story.html