    By Simon Caldwell on Thursday, 8 September 2011  Christian
churches must be banned from performing any marriages if they
refuse to hold civil partnerships ceremonies for gay couples, a
Conservative MP has demanded.  Mike Weatherley has urged the
Prime Minister to show no toleration to churches which turn away
gays and lesbians who seek to marry in their premises. [Is he
mad?  What's his game?]  The Hove and Portslade MP has in turn
been criticised by Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton
for “over-stepping the mark”[I should think so!]  In a letter to
David Cameron the south coast MP had said that the proposed
Coalition amendment to the 2010 Equality Act to allow religious
bodies or individual places of worship to register the
controversial ceremonies would remain “unfair” as long as
heterosexuals could marry in the churches of their choice. 
[Perhaps the MP doesn't understand that "fair" is a description
of the weather, not of life.  What isn't "fair", however, is the
attempt to force this on the C