Rishi Sunak ‘disassociates himself’ from Conservative Christian MP’s backing of marriage

May 18, 2023 by Jill

from Premier:

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has put at distance comments made by Christian MP Danny Kruger in support of the traditional understanding of marriage.

Marriages between men and women were “the only possible basis for a safe and successful society”, Kruger told the National Conservativism Conference, meeting in Westminster.

In his speech, the co-founder of the New Social Covenant Unit with fellow Christian Conservative Miriam Cates MP emphasised the Christian notion of marriage as “a public act” that “wider society should recognise and reward”.

But according to BBC News, Mr Sunak’s spokesman said although some ministers had chosen to speak at the event, that did not mean the government endorsed its agenda.

The remarks causing concern to Downing Street saw Danny Kruger making a bold defence of a traditional theological understanding of matrimony: “The normative family – held together by marriage, by mother and father sticking together for the sake of the children and the sake of their own parents and for the sake of themselves – this is the only possible basis for a safe and successful society.

“Marriage is not all about you. It’s not just a private arrangement. It’s a public act, by which you undertake to live for someone else, and for wider society; and wider society should recognise and reward this undertaking.”

Liberal Democrat equalities spokesperson Christine Jardine told the BBC that Mr Kruger’s comments “show just how utterly out of touch the Conservative Party is with modern day Britain”.

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