Third controversial political opinion in three days

[almostwitty]

Since I've managed to be totally out of step with my friends in terms of political opinions on the topic of the day for the last two days, I might as well carry on with that and state another controversial political opinion today.

Gay marriage - or marriage, as I'd prefer to term it - is a good thing and should be allowed.

Until this week, I'd have thought this was a relatively uncontroversial statement (at least in the UK) and generally accepted by most people. But given I've been wrong about British people about other opinions this week, no doubt you dear fine readers will prove me wrong again.

The Church flailing around because they don't get to redefine what marriage means is particularly amusing. It's like a writer who writes a book that turns out to be so popular, everyone else starts copying the ideas and the writer is left alone on a mountain-top screaming "It's my book! Surely I get to decide how you dear readers should interpret it!"

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Doesn't seem controversial to me...

[trialia]

What were the other two? As for this, you should know my views in light of my chapel being the first in England to schedule (though not hold - that's a chapel in Liverpool) a civil partnership in a place of worship.

[almostwitty]

Monday - the immigration changes are a bad idea. Nobody else seemed to state that opinion online, and indeed my LJ had a very long run of comments from someone arguing that immigration should be stopped.

Tuesday - I was seemingly alone in thinking the Olympics opening ceremony is a good idea. To be fair, I'm involved in it and so know there's a lot more to it than just an English country garden.

I do know your opinions, and am rather glad to hear there are some religious organisations that want to hold marriage ceremonies for all.

Stand by for today's controversial political opinion.

[almostwitty]

No, but I didn't think the other two opinions I held were that controversial either.