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Bishop urges politicians to support family values

The leader of Lanarkshire’s Catholics has fired a warning at politicians before the Scottish Parliament elections get under way. Bishop of Motherwell Joseph Devine has called on all local candidates “to support and promote the Christian institutions of marriage and the traditional family.�

This appears to be a thinly-veiled reference to Labour’s recent introduction of civil partnerships and adoption for same-sex couples.

Bishop Devine has continually criticised the policies and said his vote would go to a party which supported the traditional family unit.

Bishop Devine said: “Our governments in Holyrood and Westminster have signed up to the dangerous fiction that all lifestyles are equal and that all types of family are equally good in bringing up children."

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