Gay marriage plans are totalitarian, says Archbishop of Westminster There was no announcement in any party manifesto, no Green Paper, no statement in the Queen's Speech. And yet here we are on the verge of primary legislation," he said. In an apparent reference to the totalitarian state described in the novel 1984, he added: From a democratic point-of-view, it's a shambles. George Orwell would be proud of that manoeuvre, I think the process is shambolic. The Coalition is wrongly promoting homosexuality and other sexual activity outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage, he suggested. Sometimes sexual expression can be without the public bond of the faithfulness of marriage and its ordering to new life. Even governments mistakenly promote such patterns of sexual intimacy as objectively to be approved and even encouraged among the young.