Final exception for Bill.
When I was married, male homosexual practice was a criminal offence.
I opposed this legislation.
Marriage was clearly defined by Church and State as between 1 man and 1 woman.
As the years passed, the State came under pressure from the homosexual lobby, chiefly in the media, to allow civil union then "marriage" between two people of the same gender.
Legislation to allow this redefinition has been adopted in a minority of countries and in a minority of States in some countries.
This is clearly a redefinition of formal marriage.

The established Church in the UK (Church of England) has not accepted this redefinition, nor has the Church of Scotland, or the Catholic Church.

I was not married in Church and as an atheist I oppose the legislation on the obvious health and societal grounds.

In the country and area where I live, my views are the views of a lather large majority.