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UndercoverElephant wrote:

purplerat wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:I actually think the view of marriage as an age-old concept of the union of a man and a woman for the purpose of raising a family is the correct one.

Do you have any justification for this assertion?

Yes. See above posts.

UndercoverElephant wrote:

I also had a chuckle at this statement:

It is asking the rest of society to take part in a politically-correct charade in order to make gay people feel like they are no different to heterosexuals

Making a political movement out of concern over what other people call their relationship is the "politically-correct charade" at play here.

No, that's not true. Nobody cares if gay people in civil partnerships go around telling people they are married. Some people care if we change the definition of the word "marriage" in our legal system, presumably in an attempt to remove the term "civil partnership" from the working language.

It takes a lot of nerve to be that sensitive over how two adults want to define their relationship when it has zero impact on you then say they are perpetuating a "politically-correct charade". Suck it up and get over it.

Might I suggest that this sort of reaction is just going to make people dislike you personally?

I'm sorry, but I don't agree that cultural changes which affect everybody have "zero impact" on the non-gay majority of the population. Our culture belongs to all of us. There is no reason to allow it to be hijacked by people like you.