SO David Cameron says he will support any campaign which would result in allowing gay couples to get married in church.

It seems only a couple of years ago that Cameron was spouting that his party, the Conservatives, were the party of old fashioned values and that he preferred heterosexual couples to be married rather than just living together, especially where children are involved.

Family life in marriage was sacred to him.

This man seems to open his mouth before he has engaged his brain in gear and, with the probable public outcry over his view of gay couples being allowed to marry in church, he will probably do a U-turn, as he has in the past over other issues.

The Catholic Church will not be bullied into this. Cameron also mentioned mosques and by that I assume he means the Islamic faith – I thought homosexuality was condemned by muslims.

Cameron went on to say that if legislation was passed to allow gay marriages in church, any particular church which refused would not be brought to account.

That’s his get-out-of-jail-free clause. Perhaps he is after the gay vote. Sadly, the church recently refused to appoint women bishops, even though the majority were in favour. So I doubt they will be pressurised into this.

Gay people are allowed civil ceremonies. Whatever happens, the Church of England, one of our oldest traditional establishments, must not be forced by either the Government, gay rights lobbyists and most certainly not by the Eurotrash court of human rights.

MICHAEL CLARKE, Lewell Avenue, Old Marston