""Don I note that you now accept that a large minority, if not a majority of the population (minus 3!) can have valid and reasonable objections not " motivated only by hate and no rational reason"""

Keith, would you please do me a huge favour and STOP rearranging and re-interpreting my posts.

I accepted NO SUCH THING and you are a LIAR putting that construction on my post.

I said that I do not claim that they act from homophobia because I do not know, and you do not know, their motives.

For all I know to the contrary, they may indeed all be raving homophobes, and some undoubtedly will be.

55% is a population majority (not a Party, or a constituency majority) and that is how democracy works, in case that hasn't sunk in yet to your impenetrable skull.

And remember that 55% was the lowest of the polls, the highest being 71%.

Don T.