Government integration advisor: 'Catholic schools cannot oppose gay marriage'

The UK Government's top advisor on community integration has said it is "not OK" for Catholic schools to oppose gay marriage.

During a parliamentary oral evidence session on integration on Monday, Dame Louise Casey, the Government's 'integration tsar', referred to the Trojan Horse case of 2014, when a number of individuals tried to introduce Islamic extremism into schools in Birmingham.

When asked by an MP whether she thought it was a "one-off" or the "tip of the iceberg, Dame Louise answered: "Yes, it is happening elsewhere. Michael Wilshaw and others have talked about this, but we are asking teachers, day in, day out, essentially to be on the frontline of trying to work out when one community leader’s request is reasonable and when another community leader’s request is not reasonable. We ask them to manage that constantly.