My husband and I are married (in The Netherlands many years ago) and don't see this as some victory for a viewpoint but a victory for decency, morality and civilisation.

Of course, when ancient wrongs are righted, it invariably becomes an excuse for the newspapers to dig out a few old bigots and give them the oxygen of publicity, so our celebrations of this landmark for our friend over there will begin once the hatred, scorn and stupidity that will now follow, dies.

We joined civilisation here in Scotland a while ago, and whilst I didn't vote for them, SNP introduced equality in marriage and every one of their members should be proud of themselves. People who voted SNP believe in their mantra, prosperity through equality. (It's alright, this paragraph is aimed in a particular direction.)