As I am not married, I would not know about the suffering someone must endure in such a union. Although, a marriage, as I understand the meaning of the word, is the coming together of two people. This means the couple are ready for what ever life may throw at them. Arguments will occur, as they do in any relationship but love is always there to guide them. From my perspective, being single causes more suffering than any marriage.

   Well put Iron man, as long as they are not interfering with anyone else, who are we to say they cannot get married, why shouldn't they suffer like the rest of us???

Now, go read my comments on the Reading Pride fiasco

   Life is for living. If two people, ANY TWO PEOPLE, wish to get married, who are we to pass comment. I am not a bible basher, nor am I gay but feel that to much concern is being put onto this matter. The amount of vile comments that I have seen about how people are disgusted by this is appalling. I work with someone who is gay. Now whereas I can not stand the guy, when he came out, I applauded him. Despite my dislike for him, I would fight his corner if he & his partner were to marry. As for anyone who would object, heaven help them. Allowing gay people to marry is in no way redefining the concept of marrage. A marriage is a union between two people. It is human arrogance that defined that union as being between a man & a woman.

   Marriage is defined as a union between a man and a woman. We should not be redefining concepts like that purely for reasons of political correctness. I don't see anyone proposing the alternative, that is redefining what is a man and a woman. If that was done there would be no need to redefine marriage.

   ~Dangermouse~, Baker Street, nice one.

   I don't care what anyone says, it's disgusting and immoral.

Don't get me wrong some of my best friends are Christians: though the actual act however, I find quite disgusting.

Can't help but feel that the gays' interest in such an outdated religous union is somewhat over-estimated.

Religon has pretty much debased itself in the hearts and minds of most sentient people purely because of it's followers' bellicose intolerance of anything that deviates from their narrow interpretations of and obscure text, written 500 years before Jesus rocked up on the planet (allegedly).

It's not even their biggest hatred either.... Just the one most focused on.

Remember boys and girls- you may smite and burn with gay abandon, just don't ever mention the word fag.

   See what I mean David, you started agreeing with me on one thing and you're already agreeing with my views on another thing.

   David Trent, well said.

   Join the Radical Faeries, they let homosexuals "marry".

   I still get confused around this whole issue. I thought it was already legal for same-sex couples to be legally wed.

Who cares if your religious leader says no? If your actions are not considered to be in line with your chosen religion, isn't that a pretty strong indicator you've got the wrong religion? Find a new one - I wonder whether the Jedi church allows same-sex marriages (I imagine girls are few and far between).

   Strange how homophobes so dislike being called homophobes. You'd think they'd be proud of it.

The thing about gay marriage is that, no matter what the bigots say, in practice it doesn't affect anyone but the couples themselves. I cannot understand why these people go to so much trouble to stop gay marriage when there are so many other more important issues which affect them so much more that they could be addressing instead. It's as though they prioritise making gay people miserable, and pigeonholing them as a lower, less legitimate, diseased form of life with fewer rights, above improving their own lives. Which seems to me to be a very good example of spite.

Live and let live, please. You can have whatever debunked, unscientific, unpleasant prejudices you like, but you shouldn't seek to force them on other people, nor should you try to halt society's progress towards reason. It is now several decades since psychologists and scientists concluded that homosexuality is a normal variation rather than a "disorder". That is therefore how we should treat it, however much you might want it to be a "disorder", because that suits your prejudices and/or is what you have decided that your non-existent "god" must think. (Religious bigots have a long and ugly history of wilfully disregarding scientific progress where that progress conflicts with what they want to be true, and this is no exception.)

Campaign for something worthy and worthwhile instead of being a hate-filled bully. Society now welcomes gay people, that is how it should be, and if you don't like that then it's quite frankly tough. If you can't move with the times then at least just sulk in your own home (which of course you have a right to do), instead of trying to stop gay people living happy lives because you like the idea of minorities being oppressed and treated as inferior, like in the "good old days" when prejudice ruled over science and reason.

And no, I am not trying to curtail anyone's "religious freedom"; but that freedom stops where it starts to get in the way of the freedom of gay people to live happily as the normal members of society that you so desperately don't want them to be accepted as.

   This country did not vote for barmy liberal policies,the liberals lost seats in 2010.

Let the name calling begin.

   I'm all for gay marriages...let them be as miserable as everyone else!

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