Re: Gay marriage

Set your clocks to GMT and sleep during the day!

Re: Gay marriage

And who is saying that we should all be the same.

I rejoice in being different to everyone else.

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That's great but others are trying to stop others feeling that way from what's being said.

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No. Nobody is trying to stop anyone feeling how they want to feel.

The main thrust of the argument, as I see it, is that homosexuals are the ones responsible these days for trying to persuade that they are the ones who are correct and that we should celebrate their coming out of the cupboard.

I'd be much happier if everyone - they and us - would just live quietly the way we want to and stop shouting and parading about, trying to persuade everyone else that they are wrong.

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Most do live quietly I'm not sure I know any who are forcing their views on anyone. This thread was about gay marriage I don't see that as forcing anything just asking for equality.

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I'm going to start a "Heterosexual Pride Week" and a "Straight Village" where all pubs are geared for straight people only...but gay people are invited to revel in our sexuality.

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Good luck with that.

You're going to have to overcome our one-sided 'equality' laws.

They can have 'gay bars', but I challenge you to get away with having 'straight bars'!

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You're right. The thread IS entitled 'Gay marriage' and again I feel I should express my opinion, whether welcome or not.

Call me a dinosaur if you will (I am quite proud to be a dinosaur, actually), but to me the definition of 'marriage' is as laid down in our religious texts: 'the joining of man and woman'.

Marriage is not the joining of man and man, or woman and woman. For that sort of union we have civil partnerships.

I look forward to having my views challenged.

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Not being remotely religious, I just see marriage as a symbol of a couple's love for one another, and the mechanism through which a stable family life can be provided for any children which come along. As a result I don't have any issues with gay marriage (or gay adoption for that matter).

My interest is more piqued by the way in which a hugely successful PR exercise has led people to believe that the gay/bisexual/transgender proportion in our population is 2500% bigger that it actually is.

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They are your views and that's fine as long as we all abide by the law and gay marriage is lawful no problem with anyone thinks differently.

I don't see gay marriage as much different to mine, no natural children we take in the waifs no one else wants, two people loving each other and providing a home and family for kids who need us.