People want churches to ‘keep up with modern attitudes’ and carry out same-sex weddings, Justine Greening claimed in July.
The Education Secretary and equalities minister said she did not want to ‘prescribe’ how faith groups deal with the issue, but that ‘it is important that the church in a way keeps up and is part of a modern country’.
Authoritarianism
But commentator Melanie McDonagh challenged the comments, saying that they were evidence of the ‘authoritarian aspect of modern liberalism’.
