Two excellent reasons to OPPOSE gay marriage in the UK

[Angrboda]

Yes, yes my friend. Throw insults because you know it makes you feel better after losing the argument You could have spent that time reading the Collins English dictionary that I cited as well hock: And did you just start a sentence with "matter of fact"? Oh the irony. Didn't know people actually went to hillbilly schools.

I'll take this slowly for your benefit, "friend." Collins is quite correct. Your interpretation of the idiom and your application of Collins is what is incorrect. As Collins quite rightly states, "If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done." Substituting the relevant particulars, if Stonewall did not want the legislation to get "bogged down," then they did not want anything "[to prevent] [the legislators] from making progress or getting something done"; ergo, Stonewall did not want anything to prevent the legislators and their legislation from making progress. (Quoting: "it would be a 'terrible pity' if the legislation got 'bogged down'" or in other words, it would be a pity if something prevented the legislation from making progress or being completed.)

Since I notice that you didn't challenge my contention that you are not a native speaker, I will ask you directly: are you in fact not a native speaker of the English language?