RADIO 4’S Today programme was once described as the British at prayer. Within minutes of Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s appearance on yesterday‘s programme, speaking about gay marriage, much of the congregation was in uproar.

Countries that have legalised gay marriage “are shaming themselves”, said the Scottish church’s leader, insisting that marriage has always meant the union of a man and a woman and cannot mean anything else.

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