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Most people in the UK would not marry together 2 women or 2 men and most people would never want their children to be homosexual and marry.
By representation the politicians who DID want to legalize 'same sex marriage' knew it would not go over well so they (many and mostly) agreed to some kind of 'civil union'.

In fact, David would be obeying the law.

He has gone this far by mostly keeping his self-deluded 'holy-rolling' madness to a minimum.
If people saw him 'drunk out of his mind' for weeks at a time (he describes as his usual self) then I can't imagine how he would have made it this far. Christians would campaign to vote him out.
but,
David has toned it down quite a bit. Which I'm thankful for.