Babette now sit down and have your smelling salts handy. I am a liberal. I despise conservatives as much as I hate the socialists.

Now I too think marriage an institution that debases both women and MEN. I have written a manuscript on the subject and looked at it's historical origins and at the religious dogma applying to it's moral constructs.
Marriage is an artificial construct that does not fit with todays society's mores, just like it was when questioned by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Lawerance, Freud, Russell and to some extent Greer.
Sadly Bab the church dogma if challenged, for over 1000 years, resulted in the questioner being excommunicated, charged with heresy and often burned at the stake.

Marriage and it's attendent morality as it has evolved needs questioning.

"Bricks do not propagate."

Neither do heterosexual people over sixty. Have you EVER suggested that they should be prevented from getting married?

Neither do heterosexual people who are congenitally sterile. Have you EVER suggested that they should be prevented from getting married?

Neither do heterosexual people who have had vasectomies or tubal ligation or hysterectomies. Have you EVER suggested that they should be prevented from getting married?

Neither do heterosexual people who have some heritable disease they don't wish to pass to their offspring. Have you EVER suggested that they should be prevented from getting married?

Once you can show us that you have protested equally stridently about the outrageous laws that allow these wicked people to contract childless marriages, then you can go on to protest against homosexual marriages too. Till then, your case is simply special pleading driven by bigotry.

'Barrie Drewitt-Barlow and his civil partner Tony, will go to court to force churches to host homosexual weddings. '

so true Babette and just like dishonest baby killers who said it was all about the poor girl raped (which is less than 1% killings)we now have the left saying that perverted 'marriage' is all about equality. The good of children and society placed last just so a small number of people can think that their lifestyles can be condoned.

Picked it in one Babette, why do homosexuals want marriage, just like real people?

It is simply to maintain a common enemy. Without the great fear of AIDS, now much diminished, & the gay marriage thing to rant about there is nothing to unite them. They have to continue to find a common grievance, or go back to feuding among themselves.

Without something to rail against there is no reason for leaders, & a good source of ego boost, & a nice little cottage industry is lost

"I am still not getting what I want"

The bear and the rabbit found a lantern, rubbed it together and there came a genie, so they both had 3 wishes.

The bear's first wish was that all other bears in that forest become females - and so it was.

The rabbit asked for a helmet, which he got and wore.

The bear giggled at the rabbit's waste of a wish, why he didn't, like himself, ask for all the rabbits in that forest to become females, then said:

"I am still not getting what I want: let all other bears in all the surrounding forests be females" - and so it was.

The rabbit asked for a motorbike, which he got and climbed on.

The bear, in contempt of the rabbit said:

"I am still not getting what I want: let all other bears in the whole world become females" - and so it was.

The rabbit then made his third wish: "Let the bear become gay" - and buzzed off in a lightning speed on his new motorbike.

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So the lesson is, my friends, be careful what you wish for!

And the other lesson from this article - never encumber individuals (as opposed to public bodies) with anti-discrimination laws: a person must have the full freedom to work for and offer their venue to whomever they want and none else, for whatever reason or for no reason at all. Forcing someone to work for another they don't want to work for is slavery. Forcing someone to provide their venue to someone they don't want to have is confiscation of private property... so much for tolerance!

The gay marriage issue has really been about attacking institutions not "rights" and that is why the claim in the article about "getting what he wants" won't be satisfied until he can force a Church to marry him and boyfriend.

What is wanted is the humbling of Institutions which the Left have always seen (wrongly, of course) as cause of societies problems.

Gay marriage and the ongoing pedophilia in the catholic church saga are about attacking Religion not getting justice for victims.