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Thread #152856   Message #3580459
Posted By: Don Firth
01-Dec-13 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope's Survey
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope's Survey
Ake:   The "liberal" activists who produce this "show" are simply using homosexuals, the vast majority of whom don't want "marriage" in any form, to assist them in wrecking all forms of religious faith, which they see as bastions of conservatism.

Blatantly untrue.

Ake again:   Simply look at the figures for those countries which have introduced "homosexual marriage" the take up rates are miniscule, especially for age groups who would be expected to be "sexually active".

May be true where he lives, but definitely not where I live. Once gay marriage was legalized in this state, within days there was a great surge in the number of marriage licenses issued—to same-sex couples. And that's been the case in every state in which same-sex marriage has been legalized

AND—there are a large number of churches that are willing to perform same-sex marriages, so at least in the enlightened area in which I live, if a particular church or denomination wishes to refuse to perform such marriages, there are plenty of others that will.

So Ake's oft repeated claim that gay men don't want marriage in any form is simply not borne out by what is actually happening in the real world.

Don Firth