And he said: “The time is coming where faith needs to be protected from politics … the anti-discrimination movement is forcing religious belief into the four walls of a church. I am conscience of the movement for homosexual marriage and what that could mean for Catholic schools, where homosexuality could be required to be advocated as a moral equivalent to heterosexual marriage, I am concerned Catholic hospitals could be forced to recommend abortions … this is politics invading freedom of religion … freedom of religions is the freedom to practice your religion and that means taking your beliefs out of your church and living them in your life.”

He said it was a “good question” to consider how he should vote on a foreign aid budget that was in part spent on birth control services that included abortion, and he would need to consider his view.

He said it was “remarkable” that those advocating same-sex marriage had “claimed the moral high ground” and advised the audience: “We need to fight back.”

0ktema wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 5:58pm:


Incorrect. Islam does not hold such strict views on birth control. In fact, most forms of contraception are held to be permissible by Muslims, and abortion is also considered permissible in certain circumstances.

The idea of criminalising mothers who perform early-term abortions is an extremist-Christian idea not an Islamic one.