Molly... you are quite wrong to suggest that I am incapable of holding an objective discussion.

Giok posted something further up the thread which sums up the positions taken here....."By what right do people ride rough shod over other people's sincerely held beliefs screaming ME ME ME!"

Now I'm not religious, I don't care a toss what homo's or hetro's(sorry Ebbie)   do in private, and personally, I see pleny of things which could be improved about conventional marriage, but I do care about hypocrisy....and that is what is being projected by the majority of posters

"how does the granting of those rights to homosexuals deny or affect the rights of the Christians or Moslems?"

You say to me. "Don't you KNOW any homosexuals...well of course I do.
Two or three, but I know literally hundreds of people who are in conventional marriages, who went through a marriage ceremony and believe marriage means the joining of a man and woman. To many people in my neck of the woods, their wedding day has been, or will be, the most important of their lives.   They spend money on the big day, everything has to be perfect, the wedding album has pride of place in the home, the wedding picture will sit beside the pictures of children and grand children.
Most of these people see homosexuality as a perversion, and to have the institution of marriage thrown open to homosexuals diminshes its status.

While this view of homosexuality prevails, the rights of the majority are being subverted by "homosexual marriage"
Are the rights of these people not being affected by having a beloved institution altered in a way which most find offensive?
What will be the next change? Multi-person marriage?   Anything goes?
Is there nothing you would not condone in your battle against the bigots.........Or is it as Giok says...."one issue politics."

And by the way Molly, I have a packet of screws here that you can use to fix your arse back on after reading Wolfgang's post.
I can let you have 8's or 12's...depending on the size of the job...:0)