Abstract This article seeks to explore the question of whether religious opposition to same-sex marriage should be regarded as analogous to racism. In interrogating this question, it is observed that whereas it is now more than a decade since the right to have a civil marriage was first afforded to same-sex couples in England, the continued refusal of the Church of England to solemnize same-sex relationships is viewed by some as being akin to the social evil of racism. Whilst mindful of the dangers of equating religiously motivated objections to same-sex unions with racism, it is argued that increasing reference to the ‘like race’ analogy in this context may, in certain circumstances, be both desirable and inevitable.
Cumper et al. (Thu,) studied this question.