Try to be more tolerant? Have you tried saying those words to your fellow-traveller Akenaton? I love the idea of gay marriage, gay non-marriage, mixed-sex marriage, mixed-sex non-marriage, civil partnerships, whatever anyone wants. Marriage by vicars, priests, imams, rabbis, registrars, Caribbean beach bums, Elvis, Ronald MacDonald. It all works for me. And none of it is any of my business unless I get invited. I couldn't be more tolerant, nay, celebratory, of all of it if I tried. What you are really asking me to do is to be tolerant of intolerance. Intolerance which, when loudly expressed, as it often is, strays into bigotry. People who would like laws against it. People who think they should have a say in other people's perfectly decent and honourable private lives, even though it doesn't affect them one jot. Self-righteous people who invoke their religion in the cause of opposing not only gay marriage but homosexuality itself. Sorry, Keith. I am unable to comply with your request on this occasion.