I note the YES voters will not accept conscientious objectors rights and believe they have the right to enforce their will on them. They are the new white feather brigade from the 1920s. They believe in enforcing people to submit to their will. They remove the rights of personal freedom another Manus to a free society. They revel in laws that deny freedoms of belief and conscience, and police and Courts that enforce them, that run rough shod over personal opinion.

Sounds like a Socialist totalitarian State of brain washed believers!

What white feather brigade of the 1920s?

Well said, Paul, NO lost by a wide margin and the voting is over.

There is a Court of Disputed Returns for anyone that thinks that the result is wrong, go for it!

Paul1405, I have to pick you up on one of your points. You say 'what was pleasing to see from the survey was the overwhelming acceptance of a minority lifestyle, by the majority'. The result, albeit in favour of the YES camp, was by no means an 'overwhelming acceptance.....by the majority' as you try to assert. The only explanation is that the YES camp went hard in pushing their point as opposed to the NO camp who really don't care or want to have anything to do with SSM. As the saying goes, to make it case relevant. The YES camp did not win. The NO camp lost! Yes won by default. The closest analogy I have given previously is the Trump election. The 'majority' of people did not want him but due to the voting system, he got in. Therefore as I say, he didn't win, she lost. Confused? Give it a minute.

Josephus, as a conciliatory gesture it may be possible that those licenced by the state to conduct marriage ceremonies, should be able to apply for a perminat exemption on moral grounds. This exemption would need to be on public record. I say this as I am a pacifists, and was a conscientious objector (military conscription) Vietnam War. Something the Tory government at the time would not accept, and locked up many such objectors.

Paul,

"Something the Tory government at the time would not accept, and locked up many such objectors."

We should never forget that some of those objectors were tortured.