UK - Michael Gove fears that the Government could be powerless to stop primary school teachers being sacked for refusing to teach gay marriage

Government 'powerless to protect teachers 

from sack over gay marriage'

By John Bingham, and Tim Ross

The Education Secretary issued formal reassurances that teachers and other staff who hold traditional views on marriage should not be punished for refusing to promote same-sex marriage at work.

But a senior source in Mr Gove's department said the UK was not “in control” and that the ultimate decision might “inevitably” be taken at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

It comes as the Coalition prepares to publish a bill to allow same-sex couples to marry.

David Cameron believes that gay marriage is a fundamental issue of equality and is determined to make it law.

But he is facing a backlash from within his own party and churches who believe it would undermine the institution of marriage by redefining it.

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Christians 'aren't above the law', 

says equalities chief Trevor Phillips

Christians who want to be exempt from equality legislation are like Muslims trying to impose sharia on Britain, Trevor Phillips, the human rights watchdog, has declared

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... religious groups should be free to follow their own rules within their own settings but not outside. “Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law,” he said.

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