Of course, hiding behind legislation to support odious views has a short shelf life. Shortly, The UK will be in its various parliaments and assemblies voting through gay marriage.

The only issues your love life and lifestyle will then have shall be the increasingly irrelevant religious clubs who see their authority challenged and bitter twisted old people who are incapable of addressing their built in bigotry. The former will wither on the vine or decide to embrace the idea in order to be popular and the latter become less of a problem with every nursing home vacancy.