The way medicine is progressed and discovered and better performed is by Doctors working with original ideas from the assumed majority based on medical ethics.

David G

Your second point should be corrected to " Why do they have to force their agenda on the 98% of folk who are heterosexual?". Less than 2% of the population is homosexual.

The rest of your points are spot on

Josephus what do you mean by “working with original ideas from the assumed majority based on medical ethics.”

Doctors like everybody else are entitled to their own individual opinions and ethical viewpoints. You must know that there are many hotly disputed issues both within the profession as well as the in the wider community. I mention a few examples such as abortion, genetic advice, euthanasia, end of life decisions and so on.

True a local group may take a majority vote on this or that issue, but such votes are not binding and may not be representative of the society as a whole. I would have thought it most unlikely that a person living in a Western Culture would react in the same way as say somebody living in an Islamic, or Chinese or Hindu culture to these issues.

It is sufficient that doctors act within the law. Further it has to be admitted that the law is not uniform worldwide but varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction

Raycom, please note the following:

"The University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center, which has been conducting scientifically designed surveys on homosexuality for close to 30 years – far longer than the U.S. Census Bureau – found the percentage of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States in 2008 was 2 percent – a number that has been stable since the late ‘80s, according to Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey at NORC."

Your 2% figure is spot on and came as a surprise to me. I thought it was nearer 1:10.

How come we allow 2% of the population to generate so much angst for the other 98%?

"How come we allow 2% of the population to generate so much angst for the other 98%?"
Posted by David G, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 2:56:00 PM

Its not angst for 98% - more like 2-6% that are the ultra-conservative religious that have some thing about how they think it might affect them.

The rest are ambivalent or mostly see it as an equal rights thing. Moreover, probably only half of that 2% - i.e. 1% - want the right to get married, anyway.

So this is the new strategy by the Religious Right: if you criticise our demands to say and do exactly what we want, you are engaging in 'hate speech'. Thus the very mechanism set up to protect minorities and the persecuted is turned into a weapon to try and protect bigots' privileges and hateful values. It's happening in Canada and it's happening here. Hopefully by now, though, most people are well-informed and rational enough to see through it.