Same sex marriage

[Ben Davis]

As is often the case with LGBT issues, they're not as simple as the religious opponents of equal rights would have you believe. This is not just about homo vs hetero sexual rights but a matter that all people must be treated equally by the law irrespective of their sexuality. Lets look at a couple of hypothetical situations to make the 'grey' areas a little less obscure:

1. Imagine a bisexual person who's a member of an abrahamic church. This person is consciously aware of their sexuality. This person falls in love with someone of the opposite sex, gets married, has children and unfortunately gets divorced. Then they fall in love with someone of the same sex. It's ethically unsupportable to deny this person access to exactly the same rights they enjoyed under exactly the same circumstances when nothing about them has changed other than their partner.

2. Imagine a heterosexual person who's a member of an abrahamic church. This person falls in love with someone of the opposite sex, gets married, has children but decides to have a sex change (which their partner is comfortable with). It's ethically unsupportable to deny this person the rights for which they are already qualified when nothing has changed about them other than their body imagery


These are perfect examples of why the OP is nothing more than bluster when faced with the ideal of equal rights.