Gay marriage debate (From South Wales Argus)
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Gay marriage debate
11:58am Friday 22nd February 2013 in Letters
N PLAISTED’S piece, ‘MPs have no values’ has truly enlightened me. For years I have wondered who was responsible for the breakdown of society. Now I know. It’s all the fault of the gays. There was me thinking that the cause was due to a government determined to bail out the bankers by systematically dismantling chunks of our community infrastructure by closing old folks’ homes, leisure centres, valued institutions that enrich the lives of many people.
Add the imposition of cuts to welfare that will hit the neediest causing additional financial pressures on the family unit. My experience of running a bar, where I converse with a cross-section of the public on many issues, I have not heard of anyone blaming same sex marriage for our current demise, however, the general consensus is that current legislation is sufficient and further laws will only complicate matters. To criticise our MPs for decisions is fair but to accuse them personally of having no family values because they support gay marriage is wrong. I would ask Mr Plaisted this – is a loving stable gay relationship worse than a violent and abusive heterosexual one? Malcolm M Richards Aberthaw Road, Newport
Comments(3)
P C Neilson
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2:03pm Sat 23 Feb 13
This debate is starting to grate (didn't mean to rhyme) Plaisted and others from his, 'pre deodorant' generation will soon be away from the polls and away with the fairies, or at his inherited gods side, whichever, doesn't matter, the main thing is, he will be 'brown bread'.
A little morbid and visceral I hear you say, but there is a point to this observation. Assumption is the mother of all feck up's and tradition is the enemy of progress, faith is the enemy of reason, science begins where philosophy ends, yadda, yadda, and so on and so forth.
This is why morals and ideals seem to take so much time, and why transitions are often resisted, but change they will. No doubt I will lament 'the good ol' days' when some idiot politician makes curse words acceptable on daytime TV.
We are slap bang in the middle of a massive unification of the worlds people, things are going to get much messier than pansy little foo-foo problems like 'bannin' da butt secks'.
Mervyn James
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11:27am Sun 24 Feb 13
Unification is a huge joke but we aren't laughing, Europe has failed, the UN is a joke, NATO meaningless, multiculturalism is just a long word. And anyone that needs help is benefit-scrounging scum. Welcome to the enlightened second millennium....
Mervyn James says...
12:28pm Sat 23 Feb 13
nc/Black areas get the best of most deals made. Try being heterosexual and white ....... Family is defined via the church as a married man and woman to produce children, so Homosexuality is anathema to that. It's a non-starter that has escalated to religious hatred in part. First it was about equality (Gays got that in law), then about getting married (Gays got civil partnerships), the politicians had no right to widen the issues as they did to allow Gays to challenge an religious belief, that is outside an government's jurisdiction, the fact is they didn't challenge Islamic or Hindu or other beliefs made it all look discrimination frankly,the gay lobby has shown clear hatred for Christian belief in most part.. the fact is the UK population was never ASKED what they felt, and an unelected coalition decides for them, on 'Free vote via conscience' an vote WE were not privy to. Naturally a number of us would question the validity of that.