Quote ="Dally"In the context of this particular thread, there are millions of citizens (of which Kirkstaller would appear one), including alot of solid older people who genuinely believe same sex marraige to be unrighteous.'"
And those "millions of citizens" are entitled to hold onto whatever bigoted beliefs they choose. However they are not allowed to discriminate against gay people based on those beliefs, just like a racist is entitled to hold nto his racist beliefs but cannot discriminate against people of a certain race.
Quote . All these vociferous campaigns by minorities (of all types) do is to undermine confidence in the law and with that we should all worry.'"
What these "vociferous campaigns" do achieve is that they protect the rights of such minorities from backwards and intolerant bigots. The only reason people have their confidence in the laws undermined is because they consider their beliefs to be above the law.
I notice for instance how many people who oppose laws protecting gay people from discrimination often have no trouble supporting anti discrimination laws against other groups.
