Posted on 06/14/2012 12:39:38 PM PDT by ReformationFan
A petition by the UK’s Coalition for Marriage opposing the government’s proposal to re-write the definition of marriage, which has been signed by well over half-a-million petitioners, was delivered in a gift-wrapped box to the Home Office and to Downing Street this week.
The petition, one of the largest in the history of Parliament, was presented by recently married couple Rhys and Esther Curnow, both 23. The couple were joined by Conservative Party MPs Fiona Bruce and David Burrowes, Labour MP Jim Dobbin, and campaigners from the Coalition for Marriage, Colin Hart and Dr. Sharon James.
Dr Sharon James, a spokeswoman for the Coalition for Marriage, said: “We’ve got over half a million people who are saying they believe in marriage, and this isn’t just religious people but people of no faith, gay people and straight people.
“We believe passionately in marriage. It’s much bigger than the church and the state and it goes back to the beginning of human history.”
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They’ll get right to that after they allow for an EU referendum.
This just in, 500,000+ brought up on EU hate-crime charges.
If they’re not careful, the signers will be investigated for “hate speech” or some other thought crime.
Sadly, that’ll probably happen. I wonder why the EU hasn’t arrested the Pope yet for “hate crimes.”
Roar, British Lion. Roar.
It is not too late to save your once magnificent culture.
Whether here or there, the bureaucrats could care less what half a million or five million people think. In their minds everyone but them are stupid.
Even in Sodom and Gomorrah, gay ‘marriage’ was never an option.
UK prime minister:
So what's your point? What you think does not matter.
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