Britain’s civil servant tasked with integration issues has likened Catholic teaching on traditional marriage to Islamic extremism that has been exposed in schools in Birmingham. During a sitting of the Communities and Local Government Committee, at which Dame Louise Casey answered questions on her report into the so-called ‘Trojan Horse’ schools affair, she said the issues uncovered about extremism were “not okay, in the same way that it is not okay for Catholic schools to be homophobic and anti-gay marriage. That is not okay either — it is not how we bring children up in this country”. Dame Louise went on to allege that opponents of same-sex marriage using religion to cover their anti-equality views. “It is often veiled as religious conservatism, and I have a problem with the expression ‘religious conservatism’, because often it can be anti-equalities,” she said.