Someone asked "What's wrong with thread creep".

This thread is an example of what's wrong with it. The thread was opened as a joyous discussion of the Irish vote to expand the definition of marriage to include same-sex unions.

Thread creep has resulted in its being pulled off topic and becoming another soapbox for some posters' personal obsessions, which (I think) would be more fruitfully discussed if they opened their own thread and fecked off there to fight about them.