Politicians like David Cameron and Alec Salmond are pushing equality rights for all at the moment so that the next round of electioneering will be fought on their own agendas and not clouded by seemingly contetious issues .
Their line at the next election if asked about gay martriage will be that their respective elected collegues voted either for it or against it on a "free" vote, thereby killing the subject as a contentious election issue.
The rights and wrongs of the subject will be debated and voted on by wily polititions.
In the meantime can the mudcat elves give us a voting mechanism to show how we would vote on any particular subject at the end? of any debate
It would be an interesting, statisticall speaking, to see how the voting would turn out. BTW 1 poster 1 vote