Bummed for life? Quite right too.

It was just political opportunism, was it necessary? I don’t really think so, most of the gay folk I know just roll their eyes, and get on with life.

Was it necessary that black people in the USA were allowed to sit at the front of the bus?

Mark – Resident Grumpy

Sorry you got all upset about it. I thought it best to shame the idiot for a while. He’s been banned for life

very clever way of shaming him, well done Mark.

I would have been far happier had it just been quietly deleted like the pointless, offensive troll it was rather than giving the idiot the oxygen of publicity.

RightWing – Homophobe
Absolutely not. I know no gays and have no wish to be bummed and catch aids.
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Oh dear. Someone is looking through the Square window

I would certainly go. I wouldn’t consider the gayness of it; I just enjoy weddings.

As someone mentioned earlier though, I am on the fence regarding the right to marry.

The Bible is homophobic and doesn’t support gays – for that matter, children, women, slaves, certain races, non-believers etc don’t seem to matter much either.

Why a gay person would want to join a crowd who preach their ‘evilness‘ I don’t understand.

Honestly, the sooner religion disappears, the better. It seems incompatible with equality.

I reckon about 20% of people don’t get invited to any weddings and are just bitter.

Joining this very late in the thread but I’m not one of the so-called 20%.

I attended a same sex civil ceremony a few years back with the Mrs. Just another get together with her and all her ex-Uni mates.

As someone mentioned earlier though, I am on the fence regarding the right to marry.

The Bible is homophobic and doesn’t support gays – for that matter, children, women, slaves, certain races, non-believers etc don’t seem to matter much either.

Why a gay person would want to join a crowd who preach their ‘evilness’ I don’t understand.

Why would having a civil wedding ceremony require joining a religion?

I saw a gay wedding and it was just like a wedding, was disappoint.

I want to see horse drawn pink carriages and teams of marching chaps in sequins.

Gays, please embrace this opportunity to REALLY wind up the Christian Right.

Would I go? Is there a free bar?

As someone mentioned earlier though, I am on the fence regarding the right to marry.
The Bible is homophobic and doesn’t support gays – for that matter, children, women, slaves, certain races, non-believers etc don’t seem to matter much either.

Why a gay person would want to join a crowd who preach their ‘evilness’ I don’t understand.

Why would having a civil wedding ceremony require joining a religion?

But aren’t these ‘civil ceremonys’ and not ‘civil weddings’? Doesn’t a wedding need to be religious?

I’m not trolling and take note of my “would certainly go”. I’m 99% un-biggoted…

not a big fan of those Frenchies 😉

No. Weddings are not fundamentally religious. Religious weddings are religious. Civil weddings are not religious. Weddings can be either.

People may talk about ‘civil weddings’ or ‘civil ceremonies’ but that’s just a throw back to times when they weren’t seen as ‘proper weddings’ (to quote one relative…).

The Christian churches just like to claim ownership to the concept of weddings even though it predates them.

But aren’t these ‘civil ceremonys’ and not ‘civil weddings’? Doesn’t a wedding need to be religious?

If you get married in a town hall, a hotel, a castle, football stadium, or wherever it is a civil ceremony and there’s no religion involved. In fact, religion isn’t allowed to be included at all; they had to make a special law to allow Angels by Robbie Williams to be played.

The only place religion comes into play is if you get married in a church, mosque, synagogue, temple, etc. These venues are not being forced to have same sex weddings, in fact I believe the CofE is prevented by law from holding them.

So what’s the difference now then between the civil ceremony I attended a few years back, and the legalisation of ‘marriage’ last week?

Ahh a bit of googling. I attended a ‘civil partnership’ ceremony. Not a wedding.

Ahhh and I answer my own question

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/comparison-of-civil-partnership-and-marriage-for-same-sex-couples

The poll of 1,007 people Daily Mail readers found 68% agreed gay marriage should be permitted, with 26% opposing it.

i would happily go to a gay wedding but would leave as soon as i couldn’t tolerate certain things.
mainly ABBA and Erasure. that and poor quality booze.

I suspect that more people would say no when asked by a polling company than would say no when asked by a friend or family.

I’d go if I liked the couple. I wouldn’t go if I didn’t. I only know one gay couple in a committed relationship and tbh, i can’t stand either of them so in the unlikely event they asked me to their wedding, I’d decline.

no idea if it’s been asked as i can’t wade through 4 pages of angst but would you go on the stag do?? 😯

I really don’t get what the problem people have with it is. If a friend sent me an invite I’d accept it just as quick as any other.

However, I do hate weddings.

MrSmith – Member

no idea if it’s been asked as i can’t wade through 4 pages of angst but would you go on the stag do??

Yeah, why not?

Yeah, why not?

i wouldn’t want to be in ‘a gentleman’s establishment’ at 3 am watching the X-rated chippendales munch on cock.

Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. 🙂

MrSmith – Member

Yeah, why not?

i wouldn’t want to be in ‘a gentleman’s establishment’ at 3 am watching the X-rated chippendales munch on cock.

Scared you’d not be able to control yourself? 🙂

bit worried about getting something in my eye if too near the stage.

Would the 20% even get a chance to say no? Why would any right minded person want to invite some small minded bigot to their wedding?* Would you even want such a person in your circle of friends?

*Unless they want to watch them squirm for entertainment value.

i wouldn’t want to be in ‘a gentleman’s establishment’ at 3 am watching the X-rated chippendales munch on cock.

Worthy of old Wordsworth himself!

MrSmith, you are assuming that most friends of gay people are also gay.

..and like watching strippers.

I’m more interested why oral sex is the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions gay marriage.

Public school?

I think he is just confused between gay men and heterosexual middle aged women…its an easy mistake to make and presumably one night he was out , he got drunk and well we have all seen the crying game

SPOILER Alert!!!!!!!

Wait. I’m straight, can I have a civil partnership?

Who with?

I’m very flattered, but you’re already married. 🙂

It wouldn’t work anyway Molgrips, we want different things:
You – A working VW Passat and lower speed limits.
Me – A worldwide Anarcho-Socialist revolution, the reintroduction of the Texan bar and the reformation of the Beta Band.

MrSmith, you are assuming that most friends of gay people are also gay.

No. We all know what happens on stag do’s, gay men are no different from straight men once they have had a skinful at 2am on a lads night out. I know a couple (men) with an adopted baby and what happened on their stag do. 😯
Obviously that’s all in the past now they are responsible parents.

MrSmith – Member

No. We all know what happens on stag do’s, gay men are no different from straight men once they have had a skinful at 2am on a lads night out.

Oh, I understand now – you’re a YOUNG PERSON. 🙂

2am on a lad’s night out?
If I’m not in bed by 10pm, I just go home these days.

Not anymore 😐

nealglover – Member
Could I marry my mrs in a catholic church with her in the white dress all young girls yearn for, if we presented ourselves today as we were thirty years ago? I doubt it.
Yes you could.

By the sound of it, your first marriage wasn’t a Catholic Ceremony ?

If that’s the case, then you could always have married in a Catholic Church as your previous marriage would not have been recognised as “valid” in the eyes if the Catholic Church, so you had never been previously married.

(If it was a Catholic wedding first time round, then obviously that’s not relevant, and no, you couldn’t.)

Forgive me, my whole post was on the assumption that they were getting married in church these days, just goes to show how little attention Ive been paying to it all, they are not, so I have no beef, not actually sure what the fuss is all about, just a change in description from CP to Marriage, I gather there’s no other real benefits, but anyway that wasn’t what the post was about, it was would we go and frankly wild horses wouldn’t stop us, they do seem to throw better bashes than most. Lol at the stag night and chippendales, think i’d sit at the back… And for the record, it would be wrong on all levels even wanting to get married in the very church that would condemn you, that was also true for us, I wouldn’t turn Catholic for the sake of a Church wedding even if they now say I could, my experience of bringing the rest of my family up Catholic and watching them deprived of help when they needed it most, it’s a terrible organisation, not that the Cof E is much better although i still think they are a necessary evil until such times some other moral compass is in place for kids to start off with.