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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!"
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From the Pink News:

"The Civil Partnerships Act 2004 gave gay couples all the rights and benefits available to straight married couples.

There are two differences. One is that a civil partnership is formed when the second of the two parties signs the partnership papers, while a marriage happens when the partners exchange spoken words and sign the register."


I'm wondering whether, if you took out the religious element about gay marriages and had gay partnerships instead (with all the other full rights and responsibilities etc.), the gay marriage debate in the US would be a lot less heated, and more likely to pass...

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