Here we go again... from a different angle but with the same implied lack of understand about equality

Tory MP claims most gay people don't want the right to marry

I suppose he entitled to his opinion too BUT it's worrying than an MP should not grasp the4 first tenets of true equality. Whether it is two, twenty, two hundred or two thousand... what is the right number to apply equal rights?

I bet if someone treated him unequally because he was a Tory... "We will not marry Tories because of their beliefs and policies" can you imagine the outcry? Actually that would likely get quite a lot of people in favour of such a ban! lol You choose to be a Tory: you do not choose to be gay

You see, the moment we start to segregate society and people's rights based on what they are or who they are then we really are going back to darker times in our past. We have to move forward to give every citizen the same starting point in life and the same basic priveliges as all unless they have done something that deserves them not being allowed some of those rights. Gay people have done nothing wrong to deserve not having the same rights as their hetrosexual neighbours.

The suggestion now that it's down to numbers does not detract from the basic premisee of rights for all. What is the acceptable number for rights not to be applied? I suggest there is no acceptable number. We are are all very different from each other, though we share far more in common with each other than we don't, so who will be next in the numbers game to not be allowed rights? That this Tory should think there is a threshold to be applied before doing the right thing is quite worrying

the only threshold that has to be reached in this area is one of fairness and that ALL should actually mean all.

mp