Comments on: UK: we’re going to the chapel (or synogogue)

By: RCM

RCM — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:08:35 +0000

You’ll be right Mihangel, I was probably a whole “great” short. I did laugh, but I don’t really care much about what anyone does or did in bed, if they aren’t trying to do it me, or anyone that minds if they do.

I also agree with Fred’s point. At the House of Lord’s a low turnout is not important, if the Bill got through, and nothing sudden happens at the Commons, it will be law soon enough. Then Timothy Kincaid and all other concerned observers can stop getting totally confused by our currently rather silly legal situation regarding religious gay weddings.

By: Fred in the UK

Fred in the UK — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:41:32 +0000

In reply to tavdy79.

Few votes in the Lords get more than half of members to vote. Many members of the House have other occupations as well, and given that their membership is for life, a number of those 735 seats are held by those who are elderly and in poor health. So overall I would not read much into the turn-out.

By: Mihangel apYrs

Mihangel apYrs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:22:27 +0000

RCM

that’s great, great grandmother.

PS Victoria was a goer when young – she wore poor Albert out!

By: tavdy79

tavdy79 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:18:30 +0000

95-21 sounds like impressive support – until you realise that there are 735 seats in the Lords, so it’s actually a 13%-3% split: over 84% of the Lords didn’t consider the issue important enough to vote.

By: RCM

RCM — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:17:26 +0000

Here’s hoping the Queen believes lesbians exist too, unlike her Great Grandmother (Queen Victoria) who wouldn’t sign a law banning them on account of their non-existence.

By: AdrianT

AdrianT — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:43:05 +0000

Well the goal should be to abolish the distinction between gay and straight relationships. I want to see straight people apply for civil partnerships and gay people get married too. Separate is not equal.

By: David C.

David C. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:45:05 +0000

The rest of the world pulls away in the distance, as the United States falls further and further behind. Once a shining example of equality and human rights, the US is quickly finding itself increasingly a relic of its own socially conservative excesses.

Perhaps a new momentum will build for freedom, and the shock of the released energy will finally break us free from the last millennium and into a new age of equality and opportunity for all Americans, irrespective of which of their peers they choose to love.