A Catholic cleric who hit out at the "madness" of the Government's gay marriage plans was condemned for "scaremongering".
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, accused the Coalition of trying to "redefine reality" and claimed the proposals were a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".
Cardinal O'Brien said: "Since all the legal rights of marriage are already available to homosexual couples, it is clear that this proposal is not about rights, but rather is an attempt to re-define marriage for the whole of society at the behest of a small minority of activists.
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