@ suseonline: "Neither of these choices should require others to pass negative judgements on other people's legal relationship decisions. It is none of their business...." What about if an adult child wants to marry his or her parent...or three or more freely agreeing people want to marry...does the same argument apply?

Roscop, seriously?

Michael my response to your article is longer than 350 (permitted by Forum) words and so I provide a link to my response to your article.

Homosexuals and marriage and the difference as to contracts

The document can be downloaded from:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/270042621/20150630-Re-Homosexual

Suseonline, ".. those of us who believe in marriage, or are currently married, neurotic"

Says the poster who has spent years disrespecting (heterosexual) marriage and listing every flaw real or imagined, to lower its credibility, usefulness and value to society.

-All to 'prove' that the millions of present and intending married citizens were missing nothing at all if the Marriage Act was trashed to suit the vanity and provide borrowed legitimacy for Gay Pride activists. Activists who up until recently would have been highly offended and aghast if anyone suggested that the horrid stricture(sic) of heterosexual coupling might be applied to them and their 'outlaw' lifestyle.

Short memories abound among leftists. Or is it just hypocrisy and carelessness with the truth?

Good luck too trying to gag opposing views and deny freedom of speech with that childish, 'It is none of their business..'.

Yeah right Onthebeach, put up or shut up.
Show me one post of mine where I have trashed heterosexual marriage?
Why would I when I am happily married?

Then you can tell me how gay marriage would affect heterosexual marriages in any way.
No one has been able to answer that question without launching into religious claptrap, but something tells me you wouldn't do that.
I would suggest you couldn't care less who marries who, but rather just love to argue with, put down, and generally annoy others just to get some cheap thrills....

Suse,
The term "solemn vow" means nothing to most Gays because they're pathological narcissists and the people who support the marriage equality movement are a bunch of neurotic middle class housewives, embittered older leftists still partying like it's 1969 and young kids who change their views like I change my socks. Allowing people who as a group do nothing but mock mainstream society at every turn and whose personal lives are a chaotic mess marked by drug and alchohol abuse, violence and mental disease does lower the tone and demean the institution of marriage. There's another issue that on the one hand the state is trying to stop bad heterosexual marriages through family law but a small but vocal group, the pro Gay lobby are trying to elevate fundamentally dysfunctional same sex relationships to the same level as opposite sex straight ones, that will definitely hurt society. We don't need to go into the statistics on violence and dysfunction in same sex homes again, it's freely available but consider that that level of misery is your benchmark, your starting point as it were for "equality". Consider also that going by figures gathered overseas not a lot changes for homosexuals once "equality" is mandated, the vast majority of sames sex marriages in the U.K so far have been between people who already had civil partnerships and the average length of their relationships prior to the change in the law was 17 years. Figures gathered in the U.S suggest that only about 4% of homosexuals will marry if given the opportunity and 75% of those will be women, meanwhile the same old problems, the same old anti social behaviours continue unabated in the wider Gay community.

"Adam and Steve" want to have a wedding. Seriously? No, not really.