A Conservative general election candidate has been suspended after he argued that homosexuality is “not normal” and a law banning councils from promoting gay equality was correct. Philip Lardner, the Tory election candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran, said that most Britons consider homosexuality to be “somewhere between unfortunate and simply wrong” and it should not be supported by the state. In a section on his website, he supported parents and teachers who do not want children to be taught about homosexuality and churches who do not want to employ gay people.

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