Following Croatia's vote to stop same sex marriages?

Croatia's vote heartened me.

It was never about homophobia. Not even diehard Catholic bishops object to civil partnerships having the same rights in civil law as sacramental marriages, and Pope Francis has even put out a questionnaire among the faithful opening the debate on the whole thing.

The consultation was a sham. Lynne Featherstone, the minister responsible for initiating the Bill, made it quite clear that we would have this thing whether we liked it or not, and indeed it was guillotined through both houses with precious little debate allowed, no White or Green Paper, no Queen's Speech, and was not on the election manifestos of any of the parties standing in 2010. It made a travesty of democracy we shall bitterly regret when it is used as a precedent to suspend proper debate on all sorts of issues in future, starting with the right to campaign on any political issue within 12 months of an election. The abolition of that has already passed through the Commons and has been scheduled to pass through the Lords when many peers are on their Christmas holidays.

For me, marriage as a concept is a union of opposites in symbiotic mutual harmony for the purposes of providing a gender balance in the core of the family. It is not an arrangement of likes who love each other, however much I too respect and honour their commitments and see their value to society. Nobody has any right to redefine a word in a language I learnt in early childhood, and demand I change that definition by law in middle age.

I find the pressure put on by certain so-called "liberals" not least in the BBC and other similarly influential institutions to be malicious and frankly rather fascist. I am pleased the people of Croatia have more sense.

The uk government had a public consultation on the proposed bill through parliament to allow same sex marriage and 228, 000 people responded, it went through a free vote in parliament following much discussion in the press. You would have had the opportunity to lobby your MP to let him know your homophobic views against the proposed bill and the way he should consider voting as he is your representative as thd mp for where you live in the uk. The church of England and the Catholic church were allowed an opt out the proposed law which many other churches & denomination signed up to the law.

It should never be up to any sort of vote except the initial rights set up by the government that are designed to protect basic human rights. The rights of the minority should never be subject to the tyranny of the majority. You may be in the majority in your sexual orientation, but there are other ways in which you are a minority and you have every right to be. For example, you can hate gay people as much as you want, even though that is the minority view. You just can't stop them from exercising their rights.

Yes the UK should of

Good on Croatia at least they're not being bullied

Because we have laws against that sort of discrimination.