to want to sack my wedding photographer as I have discovered he is a UKIP supporter and is against gay marriage?

[Jen99]

We are getting married later in the year and we booked a photographer after a recommendation from a close friend. She knows him from her church and he has photograhed several of her friends' weddings. We were happy with him at first, seemed very professional, great photos and albums etc. He invited us to be friends on FB on both his personal and professional pages, which we accepted. However I began to get quite concerned about his posts, moaning about how much work he has and he just comes across as quite arrogant. He has also liked 2 links on FB, one to show that he is a UKIP supporter and two that he is against gay marriage.

Both me and DP are having serious reservations about him and I really don't want to pay someone who's beliefs are so fundamentally against ours. However we will more than likey lose our deposit
I don't doubt that he is a good photographer but he will be with us for most of our day and don't want to feel uncomfortable around hin. He is booked for the bridal prep on the morning of the wedding so will be spending several hours with myself and my family prior to the wedding.
Really not sure what to do

[OiYou]

Matthew Parris is not religious, btw. But as far as religious people are concerned, the word 'marriage' meant one particular thing (formalised relationship between a man and a woman, primarily for the procreation of children) and had done for centuries and centuries. Then it changed. In a few years. And they were expected to just accept that something they were taught was culturally fixed was in fact mutable. And if some of them find that a big change to make, they are labelled by some people on MN as intolerant homophobes.

Heterosexual biblical marraige where both parties enter as virgins and stay together until death do they part and don't divorce and try and make as many babies as possible.

And yet those people who belive marriage is the above.. manage to accept heterosexual marriage despite heterosexuals having a 50% divorce rate. And they manage to accept heterosexual marriage where the participants are over child bearing age in the first place. Or where the participants are infertile. Or atheist. Or had been living in sin prior to the marriage.

People accept the things they choose to accept marriage but draw the line at homosexual marriage because they don't like it.