He is a hater. Your Aunty has no valid view to not believe in Gay marriage either. Just by being gay doesn't mean your failure to see equality as a right. Views that restrict the legitimate rights of others are not views, they are personality disorder. Full stop.

Views that limit the rights of others when the subject doesn't concern you are very damaging views. I think I am right in saying all Mudcat members are in countries that claim to be democracies, even if we have dim views of how seriously governments see that fact. Democracy means equal stakeholder. If one couple are allowed to marry and not another, you are oppressing people.

Full stop.

If you wish to force people to be medically assessed without consent, or assault as the police call it, you are oppressing people.

Full stop.

Akenaton wishes to have the respect of people when he decries the work done by health and social care in the field of sexual health. He does it by rubbishing the work by stating the size of the task means it is failing. That is a considered opinion, therefore an outrageous lie. He has form on these threads of promoting compulsory testing and sexual partner tracing of a minority of people with sexual transmitted diseases based on their sexual orientation. In the same sentences he calls the recent gay marriage act, that promotes monogamy when you think about it, as a distraction.

A distraction to his solution.

I find his quiet, reasoned approach rather chilling. As someone who has interviewed many patients in forensic care, I find his approach familiar too. No other way of putting it.

If someone wishes to debate the merit of his odious views with him, fine. But me? I shall risk censure if necessary, but can never allow pathetic hatred like that to be normalised, so. Where I see it, I challenge it.