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Why not "Same Sex Marriage" ?

gk5000 · 2015-05-20 09:48:14

LGBT people want Same Sex Marriage, so why not have "Same Sex Marriage" in the Constitution, parallel and equivalent to man+woman marriage - say "Same Sex Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons of the same sex." This referendum shall probably pass 60/40 say, but you have done immence damage to…

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#62 22-05-2015 8:13am
Annasopra

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gk5000 wrote: »

Again... you want "Same Sex Marriage", so why not have "Same Sex Marriage" with the same constitutional protection as hetero but none of the baggage. Vote NO to send this back to the drawing board.

No. We want marriage. And it's patronising and rude to tell us what we want.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchet

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