"When I was married, male homosexual practice was a criminal offence.
I opposed this legislation."

I aplaud your sense of fairness/justice in opposing legalized persecution. But ask if you really consider the removal of criminalization the same as fair and equal treatment?

I had tried to post something a few days back & it vanished into the ether... but I'll try again.

A few weeks back at a music festival, I could not find my way to a concert site... a young couple heard me asking for directions and kindly ame over and invited me to tag along with them, as they were heading the same way. We had a pleasant chat along the way and foound we had much in common.

The next day I saw them again and they had they two sons with them. It was wonderful to see such a warm, loving family with two perfectly happy kids. It didn't bother the boys that they had two "moms". What would bother those kids the most would be to hear hateful things said about the two people who love and care for them. Or to be deprived of one or other because the law only grants legal rights to one or the other parent.

To be legally treated as a family, current laws require marriage of some kind... civil or religious still requires some kind of paperwork from "the state".

Fair and equal treatment should never be denied to anyone.