[mikopale]

If a gay person wants to get married or have a civil partnership, then they don't have to get Dave to do it. They can easily find someone else.

Dave doesn't treat gays differently, he's only following his beliefs which he is entitled to have. I know Christian doctors who refuse to operate abortions, that doesn't mean that they are discriminating against the mother, it just means that they don't want to kill innocent babies.

My point is, if people can choose what they do and don't do, then Dave should have the right to say that he wouldn't conduct gay marriages or civil partnerships.

Everyone makes decisions that hurt others at some point or another, and this is a decision that Dave has made. Plus, what has Dave's choice got to do with anyone on this forum. If you want to moan about someone then moan about people in your own lives, not somebody you don't even know.