It's time to treat to all those people in intimate relationships equitably and fairly.

How cruel is it to deny the partner of 30 years standing the right to medical power of attorney or right to make funereal arrangements just because there is no gold ring on the left hand?

How nasty is it to deny unmarried partner the right to financial security available to surviving spouses?

I am sick of our politicians being dictated to by the religious holy rollers.

Same sex "schemes", or whatever the naggers who try to convince us that they should be legal call them, are or would represent a cop out by any government and encourage the ridiculous idea that same sex relationships should be acceptable to society, which, of course, they should not

I am with you Billie, who cares what the religious nuts in this country think, we are supposed to be a secular society who are not ruled by these nuts who believe in fairy tales. I think if gays want to get married who the hell cares, why shouldn'd they suffer like the rest of us married people.

How can we as society tell other adults how to live their live lives without love its just plain stupid and I don't understand it. I have a gay women who works for me and I afford her the same rights that my other staff get in relation to family friendly work practices because I thought it was only fair and proper to do so.

William Countryman is a committed Christian who bothered to do his home-work, the findings of which he published in a book titled DIRT SEX & GREED.

That is he did a thorough research project into what the Bible REALLY says about emotional-sexual matters.

Plus like the good scholar that he is he also bothered to consider the social and cultural context(s) in which the Biblical texts were written. He then asked if these context(s) are in any way applicable to life in the Twentieth Century.

He then asked if in a pluralistic society, Christians have the right to impose their (often unexamined) "values" on everyone else.

The answer was of course NO.

He also argued that Christians do have the right to argue their case in the public sphere.

Does it really matter what bits of flesh are on a person?If you love someone you should be able to validate that love.If it doesn't work,you divorce and start again.What business is it of other people if you are both the same gender?Time for the prudes and religious fanatics to wake up and stop judging others.

Ho Hum

'He also argued that Christians do have the right to argue their case in the public sphere.'

I see the paedophiles, the greens, the liberals, the labour, the unions,the Muslims the criminals all have a right to say what they like but Christians don't. This is an underlying belief of many of the lefties on this forum and in other places. I suppose you believe William Wilberforce did not have a right to impose his values on the slavery trade.