In the following article, Executive Editor of the London Times, Daniel Finkelstein, outlines why conservatives should be natural supporters of marriage equality.***
I want to start with a little history. I think it is necessary.
On a cold Saturday morning in 1954, Peter Wildeblood stood in the dock at Lymington Magistrates Court in southern England charged with “conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons”. In short order, the diplomatic correspondent of The Daily Mail was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail. Thus did that great newspaper play an important role in legalising homosexuality.
For the jailing of the Mail’s man, and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers, produced an outcry. As occasionally happens in politics, this prosecution suddenly revealed a great injustice that had been there all the time, unnoticed.
For the full article, click here.
For more conservative commentary on marriage equality, click here.