UKIP has been attracting former Tories disillusioned with Prime Minister David Cameron’s “modernizing” efforts that have included a bill for “gay marriage” and broken promises on a European referendum.
Catholic priests currently officiate at 8,500 weddings a year in Britain and are recognized as “authorized persons” to marry couples on behalf of the state.
The Bulls became the object of a legal test case by homosexual organizations last year when they refused to rent a room in their home to a homosexual couple.
“If the state tried to tell the church what to believe, or how to worship, or what is right and wrong, then of course that would be too high a price to pay for Establishment,” he said.