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Coupled Moment · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:42 am

Althea wrote:

They only care otherwise because, perhaps slightly ironically in a weird way, a man in a dress tells them to.

The Catholic church is possibly the only homophobic organisation I know of where power is awarded to the most festively dressed members.

I think it's a bit stupid to draw conclusions on whether or not people want the option (right) of marriage based on whether or not they personally are going to get married. I know plenty of straight couples who, for one reason or another, are not and do not wish to be married but I doubt that they would be indifferent to legislation that changes whether or not they can.

shyamz · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:50 pm

satnav wrote:

In the article there is a picture of Cameron and Merkel with a caption underneath which says.

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Pressing priorities: Many within his own party believe PM David Cameron would be better to spend all his time sorting out the economy due to euro crisis

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1xF7qi1oS

A debate and a vote on allowing for same sex marriage would take a day at the most, surely it wouldn't be too difficult to squeeze this into the parliamentary timetable and still allow plenty of time for plenty of debating time for economic issues. If the governments handling of the economy really does require more parliamentary scrutiny perhaps MPs could give up a couple of weeks of their Summer holidays or they could even work a 5 day week once in a while.

This is the most frustrating thing about the gay marriage debate right now.
The fact that at this point in time there are numerous other things going on that anti-gay marriage people might not normaly think about, but now will leap on claiming how important they think they are to distract from the issue and delay (or they hope prevent) getting to a level of serious discussion in parliament.

Paul · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:36 pm

Gay couple become first in Britain to hold civil partnership ceremony in a church

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hurch.html

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:44 pm

Looks like the original headline might have been been edited.

Best rated:-

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Thank you for the article - however, we did not have a wedding as weddings for same sex couples are not legally recognised. We had the first civil partnership to be registered on religious premises. As this is a controversial issue, it is important to be accurate.

- Kieran Bohan, Liverpool, UK, 11/6/2012 15:43

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3837

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The more minorities push themselves on the majority the more they alienate the same majority, this just pushes the CofE closer to oblivion, one wonders if that's what some want, but remember if Christianity falls in the UK, the religions that will replace it are a lot less tolerant!
- andy, derby, 11/6/2012 16:58

I don't think Andy means religions plural there.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:23 am

Children of same-sex couples 'at higher risk of depression and social issues as adults' - but experts say new study is flawed

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The research, conducted by the University of Texas...

I know, I know... it's shit to call a spade a spade.............

However it is also still true, sadly, that black children fare worse than their white counterparts.

So the problem lies where exactly?

croissantfever · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:21 am

This phrase confused me a bit...

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Dr Regnerus argued that the study is the largest random sample of young adults with at least one same-sex parent, to date.

What does that even mean?!

Big Rob · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:56 am

Has anyone done a study on the effect of mail reading parents on kids?

shyamz · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:12 pm

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Children of same-sex couples 'at higher risk of depression and social issues as adults'

Nothing to do with the bullying and namecalling they're likely to get from the children of bigoted parents then? Or have they decided it's just because gay relationships are wrong?

Even if the study is flawed (as I'm sure it is), it doesn't change the fact that if society as a whole were more tolerant of gay couples and parents, a lot of the problems they and their children have could be eased or solved altogether. Writing up about "studies" like that in this fashion does nothing to address that, only give anti-gay adoption people more evidence (in their moinds) that their oppinions are justified.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:34 pm

The American Psychological Association has long reckoned that same sex parenting is OK:

http://www.apa.org/about/policy/parenting.aspx

satnav · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:28 pm

No Andrew opposing Gay marriage doesn't make you a bigot but being associate editor of the Daily Mail probably does make you prone to write articles that appeal to bigots.

shyamz · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:40 pm

satnav wrote:

No Andrew opposing Gay marriage doesn't make you a bigot but being associate editor of the Daily Mail probably does make you prone to write articles that appeal to bigots.

I'm guessing he doesn't read his online comment either:

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Thank you for the article - however, we did not have a wedding as weddings for same sex couples are not legally recognised. We had the first civil partnership to be registered on religious premises. As this is a controversial issue, it is important to be accurate.

- Kieran Bohan, Liverpool, UK, 11/6/2012 15:43

ACG · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:03 am

satnav wrote:

well i dunno mr pierce, black people can be racists, women can be misogynists, and yes, gay people can be bigots, so it's definitely possible. so considering all other mitigating factors (who you work for, the use of the position to promote your personal opinion as fact, your personal opinion being that other should be denied something because you don't want it, etc..) how about we just settle on "cunt"?

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:09 am

ACG wrote:

well i dunno mr pierce, black people can be racists, women can be misogynists, and yes, gay people can be bigots, so it's definitely possible. so considering all other mitigating factors (who you work for, the use of the position to promote your personal opinion as fact, your personal opinion being that other should be denied something because you don't want it, etc..) how about we just settle on "cunt"?

Exactly.
And how representative of the gay community is he?

Althea · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:07 am

I, too, shall settle with "cunt".

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