ten years' waiting, but it's better late than the never we've been told before

[frith_in_thorns]

The UK government is currently running a public consultation on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

Go and reply to it. It's very quick - you can just check the boxes, even. (I'm assuming you're all in favour - if you aren't I have to wonder if I'm on your flist by accident :P)

I don't see anything that says you have to be a UK citizen to reply.

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[frith_in_thorns]

Not to mention, not all religions are opposed to same-sex marriage - the UK Quakers have been agreed for several years now that they want to be able to marry same-sex couples.
And there are no real reasons against it that don't boil down to "I don't like queer people and don't think they should get the same rights as me". I also put quite a lot of strident comments into the form!
/has a lot of ~feelings on this

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

I love Quakerism - there's probably something bad about it that I haven't yet heard, but everything I know about it sounds awesome.

Ugh, yes. I just can't understand the other reasons. I mean, I understand the words in the phrase "Marriage can only be between a man and a woman", but I just cannot get my head around it as a viewpoint. I don't see how it's anything other than bigotry, really.

[frith_in_thorns]

You probably don't know Claire, one of my housemates (and ex-gf), but she's a Quaker and was one of the people responsible for getting this pushed thorough *is very proud to know her*. And they do sound pretty awesome.

And I've never heard an argument that wasn't either "the bible says (inconclusively)" or "I don't like gay people". Which are both terrible arguments.

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool! And yes, they're dreadful arguments.