And……Hasn’t Obama a preacher friend at his local church by the name of Rev Jeremiah Wright? The same preacher who believes ‘the white man’ introduced AIDS to kill blacks and that the Twin Towers attacks were caused by Americas tolerance of homosexuals, abortion, [insert brand of bigotry here ad infinitum]

The emotive term here being exploited is “marriage” Gay marriage – that horrible expression beloved of the Tabloids – it is not. The fundies seem to forget that legal processes and rights upon which Civil Partnerships are based are the same as those enjoyed in man-woman unions. The religious nutters don’t want to give equal legal status to all people because the fundies want to keep some of us as second class citizens: easier to bash us if we are unprotected law. The Proposition 8 debacle in California is a retrograde step in terms of human rights and common decency; what next, homosexuality to made illegal?

Er…… and were not people getting ‘married’ long before the churches hijacked the proceedings to make money and add their prejudice.