w00t! Good one, Mike!

in response to[URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=345694&postcount=900"] this,[/URL]

the other side: [QUOTE][URL="http://www.avclub.com/articles/enders-game-author-orson-scott-card-issues-plea-fo%2C99915/"]Sadly for Card, we may not yet have reached that more enlightened era, when homophobes are allowed to live freely without fear of their movies suffering a slight dip in profits. Nevertheless, Card is here, he hates queers, and he suggests you get used to it in time for the movie’s premiere. [/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=chappy;345856]in response to[URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=345694&postcount=900"] this,[/URL]

the other side:[/QUOTE]

Poor widdle intolerant jerk. He can dish it out, but he can't take it.

[QUOTE]I know there are those who do not love their fellow human beings, and I HATE people like that![/QUOTE] -Tom Lehrer, National Brotherhood Week intro, [U]That Was The Year That Was[/U]

[url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gay-marriage-catholic-protest-group-2050564[/url]

The reaction to such religio-political shenanigans over there is mind-bogglingly different than it is here. So many US pols kowtow to such pressures.

[QUOTE=kladner;346269]The reaction to such religio-political shenanigans over there is mind-bogglingly different than it is here. So many US pols kowtow to such pressures.[/QUOTE]

I agree that the majority of the people are more level headed (on this issue) but there's always [URL="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-fd-up-over-1902335"]these people.[/URL]

[QUOTE=chappy;346271]I agree that the majority of the people are more level headed (on this issue) but there's always [URL="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-fd-up-over-1902335"]these people.[/URL][/QUOTE]The slim legal barrier is all that keeps Tebbit from marrying his own son to avoid inheritance tax?

The end is nigh?
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23320624"]Gay marriage: Peers approve legislation[/URL]

Single-sex marriage is close to being approved in the UK.

[QUOTE=xilman;346399][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23320624"]Gay marriage: Peers approve legislation[/URL]

Single-sex marriage is close to being approved in the UK.[/QUOTE]Update: it is [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23338279"]now approved[/URL].

[QUOTE=xilman;346559]Update: it is [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23338279"]now approved[/URL].[/QUOTE]

Excellent.

Interesting that some of the "Colonies" were actually faster at such modern thinking....

[QUOTE=chalsall;346560]Excellent.

Interesting that some of the "Colonies" were actually faster at such modern thinking....[/QUOTE]
...and it's not difficult to see where the former colonies which are still lagging behind in the dark ages originally got their ideas from.

But that's enough cynicism from this disgruntled ex-Brit. Clearly this is wonderful news for England and Wales. The turn-around in attitudes on this issue has occurred phenomenally fast, too, resulting in legislation which was unthinkable even just a few years ago. As late as 2010 Stonewall, the largest organisation in Britain devoted to campaigning for equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, was still failing to support the campaign for equal marriage, evidently regarding it as a pipe dream. I have huge admiration for the campaigners who convinced the three major political parties that equal marriage was the way forward and made it all happen so fast.