Originally published February 2013.
What on earth is behind the furore inside the Conservative party over gay marriage? I totally fail to understand it. Apparently up to 180 Tory MPs including several cabinet members are planning to vote against, and grassroots members are up in arms. I applaud David Cameron for doing the right thing for once.
I fail to understand how this generates so much opposition. To those Tories who do oppose it I can only respond "Some men prefer their partners to be men, some women prefer women - get over it! " They are not paedophiles. They are not a threat to you. And you can be sure they are not remotely interested in you. Permitting them the same rights as heterosexual couples will not undermine the fabric of society. If opposition is on the grounds that it puts the CoE in an awkward position then that just demonstrates how disconnected from modern Britain the Church has become (the Tory party at prayer after all?). That's a problem for the Church to sort out and shouldn't be allowed to delay fair treatment for gay couples.
Thatcher and her cronies had the same narrow-minded attitude back in the 1980s and has been proved to have been comprehensively wrong and utterly misguided. It seems some 'modern' Tories are determined to repeat the same mistake.
What on earth is behind the furore inside the Conservative party over gay marriage? I totally fail to understand it. Apparently up to 180 Tory MPs including several cabinet members are planning to vote against, and grassroots members are up in arms. I applaud David Cameron for doing the right thing for once.
I fail to understand how this generates so much opposition. To those Tories who do oppose it I can only respond "Some men prefer their partners to be men, some women prefer women - get over it! " They are not paedophiles. They are not a threat to you. And you can be sure they are not remotely interested in you. Permitting them the same rights as heterosexual couples will not undermine the fabric of society. If opposition is on the grounds that it puts the CoE in an awkward position then that just demonstrates how disconnected from modern Britain the Church has become (the Tory party at prayer after all?). That's a problem for the Church to sort out and shouldn't be allowed to delay fair treatment for gay couples.
Thatcher and her cronies had the same narrow-minded attitude back in the 1980s and has been proved to have been comprehensively wrong and utterly misguided. It seems some 'modern' Tories are determined to repeat the same mistake.
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