SO, it looks as if gay people are going to be able to ‘get married’ in a church.

I’m not religious but I always understood marriage to be based in religion on two people committing to each other for the purposes of procreation.

As a gay man myself, I expect to be treated no differently from anyone else, but this does not mean that every aspect of a gay lifestyle should exactly mirror the lifestyle of my heterosexual friends and colleagues?

Gay activists are always going on about celebrating the differences between lifestyles.

Isn’t that why certain large organisations employ ‘diversity’ officers?

I would much prefer it for the gay community to come up with a different term that would bestow the exact same rights in respect of legalities regarding inheritance, pensions, life choices etc that heterosexual couples enjoy, where a ceremony could be conducted in a non-religious environment, and that if the couple wished, could have their partnership blessed in a church by a willing member of the clergy.

But ‘marriage’ between two people of the same sex, in a place of worship would, in my opinion, be a step too far.

Darwen Malc, (via email).