The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157281   Message #3711370
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-May-15 - 05:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: All changed, changed utterly.
Subject: RE: BS: All changed, changed utterly.
I support gay marriage but I respect the views of those who still believe in the traditional concept of marriage.

So what it this business of the traditional concept? How far back are you going? What other cultures, present and historical, are you including? Chanting "traditional concept" is doing no more then slamming the door on gay people's right to happiness. There is nothing especially "sacred" about a legal union made at either an altar or in a register office between a man and a woman such that we can't apply flexibility to. My son and his now-missus have just been married in a secular ceremony in Las Vegas by Elvis. Is that traditional enough for you? If we can have flexibility in the way it's done, why not in the genders of the couple? If you keep your anti-gay wedding views to yourself, fine, but, as soon as you speak out against, you are working against people's happiness in a thoroughly unjustified, bigoted way and your "views" are not to be respected.