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No offence but out of all the British countries I did not expect Scotland to make the first steps towards gay marriage, good news though.
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Scotland have a much more liberal government than England and Northern Ireland do - I imagine Wales will probably put similar plans in motion soon.
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I kind of think this is all a bit of a moot point and I've never understood why there's such clamour for gay marriage. The religious bodies that oppose it aren't going to suddenly become tolerant because of legislation; so if they refuse service to gay couples are they going to be harangued through equality laws until they're forced into it? What if they say no and gay couples aren't able to get a marriage anywhere in the country? Then they have a 'right' that they can't actually have. It's a total stand off and I just think it's pointless. Half the people who get married in a church only do so because they want the big white dress in a grand hall, not because they're religious - there's such a crisis of faith in the UK that that's my honest opinion. Argh I could rant about this for hours, it's such a pointless struggle for nothing. Either way, one group will be left very bitterly disappointed by legal outcomes.
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It's lacroix darling
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Sorry but am I being retarded? I thought same sex couples could get married already?
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I guess gods belong to all people who believe in them and not just the priests. So maybe if a religion is allowed to preach and recruit in a country, it should have to obey the laws of that country.
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Ahh right, okay sorry
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I don't get it when the homophobes bang on about the "Sactity of Marriage" when there are couples getting divorced after less than a year these days, so why would letting gay couples marry change anything?
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Technically, they can but it's called civil partnership. So basically if you're in a civil partnership you have the same rights as in a marriage but it's given a different title.
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Anyway, this is a great step forward and I'm glad to hear this. Hopefully more places in the world - including the rest of the UK - follows on. It's only right that we're all given equal rights.
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so do individual churches have the right to refuse a gay couples request to get married in their church? If for example a Church in Glasgow was asked to perform a gay marriage and they said no we dont do gay marriages, could the couple take legal action against that Church?
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You know, that explains so much...
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A civil partnership in the uk has the same legal rights has a marriage, the only difference is the name.
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If they do legalise gay "marriage" this will in no way force the church into conducting gay marriages. And if the gay lobby tried to force the church under equality law, then in the name of equality, the Muslims, Jews, Hindus etc. etc. etc. will be all forced to legalise it also. This will not happen. Niall is right, there was a whole discussion about this on another thread, so at the risk of going over the same ground... I see no reason why religious gay people could not have a civil marriage and a religious blessing, like divorced heterosexual couples have been doing for decades and decades without feeling like they were being marginalised. |
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My thoughts are similar to Livia's really.
If I was going to marry a man I wouldn't get caught up in what the official ceremony was called, I'd be more bothered about getting the same rights as a straight couple and seeing as they already already do I find the rest of it a little pedantic. Last edited by Tom4784; 26-07-2012 at 03:59 PM. |
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I find it sad that the pursuit of total equality is seen as pedantic
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