In the UK we already have the civil unions and I think they work just fine. Marriage is defined as a union between a man and a women. It's terminology. At the end of teh day what matters is whether the couple involved have recognition of the union in law and protection. A civil union does just that, the great thing is it can be used by heterosexuals too....
However I agree with most of the people on this, I don't give a damn what someones arientation is as long as they aren't arseholes and it doesn't involve children, animals or brutality.
What I do get peed of with is those homosexual people who shove it down your throat. In the UK at least (and the rest of the EU) there is legislation that protects and gives equal rights to gays in work, life etc. I have know many gay people and well didn't know until it just came about. I have met a couple who made it their business that you knew they were gay and hell become you lest you forgot.
As for a gay couple adopting, well There are many children who are brought up succesfully without either a mother or a father so I wouldn't say just because a couple are gay they are, by default not ideal parents. The issue is that in this society children will be horendously bullied at some point. Also I think it is a symptom of the "have anything no matter what" culture that exists in the west, at least in the UK, and that extends to people using IVF, which I don't agree with but that's another topic.
I haven't seen anything here that is bigotted, some of it I might not agree with but none of it is homophobic.
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