Wealthy gay dad, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, said in early August that he and his civil partner Tony will go to court to force churches to host gay weddings.
He told the Essex Chronicle that he will take legal action because, ‘I am still not getting what I want’. A government bill legalising gay marriage passed Parliament over the summer, but it was said to include measures to protect churches from being forced to perform same-sex marriages.
Mr. Drewitt-Barlow said: ‘The only way forward for us now is to make a challenge in the courts against the church. It is a shame that we are forced to take Christians into a court to get them to recognise us’. He added: ‘It upsets me because I want it so much — a big lavish ceremony, the whole works, I just don’t think it is going to happen straight away. As much as people are saying this is a good thing I am still not getting what I want’.
