any chance of free food is a ftw to me.
any chance of free food is a ftw to me.
Pro civil union + codified rights.
Against labelling it 'marriage'.
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Inclined to agree, same rights on pensions, inheritance, next of kin, etc, but in not giving it the same name it is tacit discrimination; as I said in my first post, a sop to mad people. I could see why gay people might get on their high horses about it, if it didn't matter HM Govt would've called it a marriage.
If a black man married and white woman and was only allowed to call it a "civil union" there'd (rightly) be an outcry.
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Bible bashers will inevitably quote a passage from Leviticus which calls homosexuality an abomination.
The irony is that the same passage in Leviticus also specifically outlaws several other things which people do everyday, such as shaving and wearing clothes made from more than one material.
I'm not against it. Live and let live.
Yeah, couldn't care less tbh, let people do what they want.
Let them get on with it, these couples are obviously in love so why not let them 'marry' in the same way as a man and woman.
As a side note i should actually vote for the bottom option (no pun there) as i have spent more time at a sporting venue with Gay in it than any other. The much missed Gay Meadow in Shrewsbury.
Or the ones about stoning your daughter. You can pick all sorts of things. AFAIK, homosexuality isn't really covered in the New Testament.
Well there was legislation against interracial marriage too. Doesn't make it right.
If it's the same, why give it a different name?
Obviously I'd take civil unions over nothing, which is what exists in many cases in the US, but it's not marriage and the push shouldn't be over unless it's called marriage. As BoyBrumby alluded, if an interracial couple had the same rights, but were labeled something different, there'd be an outcry. And people forget: they used to quote bible passages for their opposition to interracial marriage too. Then it became terribly not-PC to be against that, and it kind of went away.
Hopefully the same thing happens with gay marriage eventually. Obviously civil unions would be a nice start, if they existed in all the states in the US - it's great that other countries already have them.
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