Editing Ian Paisley (section)

===Campaign against homosexuality===
{{Main|Save Ulster from Sodomy}}
Paisley preached against homosexuality,<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-24-la-ed-paisley24-2010mar24-story.html Ian Paisley and politics of peace], ''Los Angeles Times'', 24 March 2010</ref> supported laws criminalising it and picketed various gay rights events. He denounced it as "a crime against God and man and its practice is a terrible step to the total demoralisation of any country".<ref>Hunt, Stephen. ''Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities''. Ashgate Publishing, 2012. p.132</ref> Save Ulster from Sodomy was a campaign launched by Paisley in 1977, in opposition to the Northern Ireland Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, established in 1974.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1977/1020/Pg007.html#Ar00702:2070E82811412471B426D1D119A13A21D19418C1921BC1AF2B51B42DD1D11E12E12012F627056B29258024413D3191962EA1B532C1D129F0EA3491442771B42AC1D11893A61B33BB |title=Paisley campaigns to 'save Ulster from Sodomy' |newspaper=The Irish Times |page=7 |date=20 October 1977 |access-date=7 May 2008 |archive-date=10 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010013618/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1977/1020/Pg007.html#Ar00702:2070E82811412471B426D1D119A13A21D19418C1921BC1AF2B51B42DD1D11E12E12012F627056B29258024413D3191962EA1B532C1D129F0EA3491442771B42AC1D11893A61B33BB |url-status=live }}{{Subscription required}}</ref> Paisley's campaign sought to prevent the extension to Northern Ireland of the [[Sexual Offences Act 1967]], which had decriminalised homosexual acts between males over 21 years of age in England and Wales. Paisley's campaign failed when legislation was passed in 1982 as a result of the previous year's ruling by the [[European Court of Human Rights]] in the case of ''[[Dudgeon v United Kingdom]]''.<ref>Stonewall timeline of Gay & Lesbian history available here [http://www.stonewallcymru.org.uk/information_bank/history__lesbian__gay/89.asp?TextSize=large&] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313223408/http://www.stonewallcymru.org.uk/information_bank/history__lesbian__gay/89.asp?TextSize=large&|date=13 March 2007}}.</ref>