What: "If you talk to ministers just now, they say, "Gay marriage is like the smoking ban. People thought they were against it, but when it happened, they just accepted it." I cannot prove this wrong, but the triviality of the comparison makes me suspicious. Marriage is a great, big, deep subject. There is no crying need to change it just because a vociferous lobby says we must. I recommend a policy which should surely unite all conservatives, trad or modernising - masterly inactivity."

Writer: Charles Moore

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Date: Nov 19 2012 7:57 PM