The Scottish Government has given assurances that it will be illegal for anyone to be discriminated against because they hold to the traditional definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
The assurances were given in a meeting last week at the Scottish Parliament between Alex Neil, the minister overseeing the same-sex marriage bill, and the Reverend David Robertson, a Free Church minister in Dundee.
Mr Robertson, a director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity, was concerned that Christians could be persecuted because of their views after same-sex marriage has been legalised.
He also feared churches would have their charity status revoked by OSCR, Scotland's charity watchdog, for breaking new equality laws. Read more
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