‘Marriage is just for some queen who wants to dress up in a bridal frock’, Mr Coburn said (Picture: Getty Images)

Supporters of same-sex marriage are ‘equality Nazis’ who helped push through a law that only matters to ‘some queen who wants to dress up in a frock and dance up the aisle to the Village People, a UKIP MEP has said.

In an interview with the Huffington Post just weeks before the Rochester and Strood by-election, David Coburn slammed what he called the ‘militant equality lobby’, taking aim at gay rights activists and saying gay marriage had increased homophobia.

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Mr Coburn, who has been in a relationship for 30 years, branded same-sex marriage ‘false bollocks’ and said that it ‘makes a mockery of the holy sacrament of marriage’.

‘What you’re doing with the gay marriage issue is you’re rubbing people’s noses in the dirt. Everyone had agreed and been quite happy with the idea of civil partnership, it was all bedded in and people were happy with it, they got used to the idea,’ he told the Huffington Post.

Mr Coburn said gay marriage ‘rubs people’s noses in the dirt’ (Picture: PA)

‘It’s just for some queen who wants to dress up in a bridal frock and in a big moustache and dance up the aisle to the Village People, quite frankly if that’s the cost of upsetting a hell of a lot of people, then I don’t think it’s a price worth paying.’

Mr Coburn, who has described himself as ‘spectacularly homosexual’, also said ‘quite a lot’ of gay people were opposed to gay marriage and accused charity Stonewall of ‘looking for something to be upset about.’

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The UKIP MEP also defended the rights of fellow party members to have views that could be seen as homophobic.

‘I’m a big boy,’ he said.