Having spent fifty years working with numbers, producing and analysing statistics and financial data, I suspect, as a matter of principle, all statistical reports put forward as 'proof' of an individual's dogmatic beliefs.

Before I accept pages of stats as 'proof' of anything, I need to know whom the pollsters are, who employed them to carry out the survey(s), what the aims were of their survey(s), in what terms their survey questions were couched, how their sample-membership was comprised and how the individuals polled were decided upon, where the survey took place, etc., etc.

The suggestion that Gay men, in particular, will commit themselves to marriage with the express intention of then 'spreading it around' is, frankly, illogical. And the implied suggestion that homosexuality renders an individual incapable of fidelity to one partner is simply ludicrous. And, of course, there are plenty of hetero men and women who engage in sex with partners other than their spouses.

If, as has been suggested, there are serious health issues amongst Gay men which result from their lifestyle-choices, surely the answer is not to deny all Gay men the right to the happiness and security of marriage with their partner, but to provide opportunities for education and health-care in order to reduce the risks faced by the at-risk demographic?

And anyway, why should any individual's rights be determined on the basis of his neighbour's behaviour?