The knee-jerk reaction of the typical homophobe to the idea of same-sex marriage is to invoke the idea of someone wanting to marry his pet camel, warthog, or octopus. One wonders what other dark spiders grow in the dank recesses of their souls. . . .

Scene – South Africa, early twentieth century. British soldier runs into the captain's tent.

"Captain," he says excitedly, "Chumley is having sex with an ostrich!"
"Good Lord!" says the Captain. "Is the ostrich a female?"
"Of course, sir! There's nothing queer about old Chumley!"

Barbara and I are acquainted with few same-sex couples. In fact a nearby mainline church has married a number of same-sex couples. They're nice folks. In stable relationships. In fact, most of the same-sex marriages I've heard of are one helluvalot more stable than a lot of heterosexual marriages.

And I don't see how their marriages, in any way, affects Barbara's and my marriage.

Ake, why do you care what other people do in the privacy of their own homes?

Don Firth