Marriage rights

I note that Barack Obama, who rejected gay marriage in 2004 “because of his religious beliefs”, has had a Damascene conversion and now supports it as a “civil rights issue”. Or it could be an election tactic to force Mitt Romney to confront the topic in the hope that the Republican right will implode – but that is surely an unworthy thought.

In the UK, with secular homophobia in steep decline and most gay legal rights enshrined in the 2004 Civil Partnership Act, the only remaining debate is over the word “marriage”.

The Christian hierarchy’s use of the unbiblical sophistry, “love the sinner but hate the sin”, and the claim by some mullahs that civilisation itself is at stake is beyond ridicule.

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It makes me think more of pink triangles than universal love and I hope the Kirk’s special committee of theological spin-meisters can dream up some sort of semantic exit.

(Dr) John Cameron

Howard Place

St Andrews