The blonde star - the daughter of Bob Geldof - has joined the campaign to legalise gay marriage in the UK and is astounded at how many people are still opposed to it in modern society.
Peaches said: "For a country and culture that declares ourselves so progressive, our governments, citizens and, of course, our churches, can be small-minded bigots at the best of times.
"One day we'll look back on the gay marriage ban as we look back on historical events like apartheid.
Because in the end, that's what it is - pointless, futile segregation."
One of the reasons why the 23-year-old pop star feels so strongly about this cause is because she grew up with a gay best friend, Ben, and saw first hand the "devastation" that he experienced when he came out to his parents and told them he was dating Peaches' other friend Daniel.
Writing in an article for the Independent Voices website (www.independentvoices.com), she revealed: "I sat there, on the same patch of grass in Cavendish Square, worn down from our school shoes, and my friend wept as the words left his mouth.
"I grieved for them, knowing I could never take the words back for him myself. His mother was devastated, his father, in his words, 'ruined'.
"They both told him he was sick and a failure. He left home. How, of course, could he have stayed. I think, after that, Ben hated Daniel a little bit, partly because he had pushed him to come out, partly because he was jealous. But in the end he loved him more, and Daniel's parents allowed him to move in to their house and live there with him."
Ben and Daniel eventually got married in a ceremony in New York several years after the incident.
Peaches wrote the article to support Independent Voices' EQUAL PARTNERS campaign to fully legalise gay marriage in Britain.
The EQUAL PARTNERS manifesto's aims are for civil marriages to be extended to homosexual couples and for religious institutions to be free to marry homosexual couples.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.pilib04 | Oct 13, 2012, 10:23 AM EDT
The Geldof family have taken the words of America's founder of "public high schools" and ""leading educator" to heart. "Be ashamed to die until you have won a victory for humanity." Horace Mann (to the first graduation class of Antioch College, 1859).
seanomelb | Oct 11, 2012, 06:40 PM EDT
peaches who!!
seanomelb | Oct 11, 2012, 06:40 PM EDT
Peaches who!!!
cillowen | Oct 11, 2012, 03:45 PM EDT
geldorf is a peachy member of the most excellent order of the british empire - walks on water since - quislings crawler type
Murph46 | Oct 11, 2012, 01:46 PM EDT
And Peaches qualifications are what?
KatieMurphy | Oct 11, 2012, 01:24 PM EDT
Ktie berk with her sick comments is most likely in tune with the Evagelicals - the people who gave us slavery, segregation and the kkk. BTW tony perkins , head of the FRC - he's a racist from Louisiana. Guess who was the worst racist in history - the guy who got elected in germany in 1933.............Some people always need someone to hate - most likely because they hate themselves for one reason or other. RE gays - their usually users of REACTION FORMATION - look it up on Wikipedia.
SeamusMor | Oct 11, 2012, 01:23 PM EDT
"Equal Rights" is a better name than "Gay Marriage" for this issue,which should be re-branded if the movement is to succeed.
uppinko | Oct 11, 2012, 11:20 AM EDT
Some role model. Sure her father was no better, stirred it up with his antisocial ravings the joined in the rat race himself. Geldofs go home.
katieherk | Oct 11, 2012, 10:55 AM EDT
Here's one sicky!!! BooHoo for her friend who cannot face reality and live a normal, but gay life if that's the way he wants it. This world is getting sicker and sicker thanks to the likes of people like Peaches!!
CelticQueenUSA | Oct 11, 2012, 10:35 AM EDT
Count me in.
johhnyb | Oct 11, 2012, 09:15 AM EDT
That ought to swing it.