5 bizarre things bigots said equal marriage would lead to [Video]

Ten years ago today, on 29 March 2014, the first same-sex weddings took place in England and Wales after the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act came into force, finally giving LGBTQ+ couples equal right to marriage.

In the run-up to the law being passed, homophobes told the nation countless times about the possible risks and consequences of allowing LGBTQ+ folks to tie the knot. We were warned that natural disasters would plague the land, people would start marry animals and that the devil would appear from a gay man’s anus (no, really, that was a thing that was actually said).

To mark 10 years of same-sex marriage, which has seen thousands of LGBTQ+ couples get married in officially recognised unions, we look back at some of the most bizarre and bonkers claims made by homophobes.

When discussing the legislation in May 2013, former Conservative Party chairman Lord Norman Tebbit suggested if equal marriage was made …