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Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland
BBC ^ | 7/25/2012

Posted on 07/25/2012 3:40:13 AM PDT by markomalley

Scotland is set to become the first part of the UK to introduce gay marriage after the SNP government announced plans to make the change.

Scottish ministers confirmed they would bring forward a bill on the issue.

Political leaders, equality groups and others support gay marriage, but it is strongly opposed by the Catholic Church and Church of Scotland.

The announcement was made in the wake of a government consultation which produced a massive response.

Same-sex couples in Scotland currently have the option to enter into civil partnerships and the Holyrood government has insisted no part of the religious community would be forced to hold same-sex weddings in churches.

Despite opposition by the big religions, faith groups, including the United Reformed Church, the Quakers, Buddhists and the Pagan Federation back gay marriage.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; scotland; uk

1 posted on 07/25/2012 3:40:16 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Who gets to wear the kilt?


2 posted on 07/25/2012 4:19:46 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: markomalley

Let me know when it gets to Ireland - I have a really good joke for that...


3 posted on 07/25/2012 4:44:57 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: markomalley
...faith groups, including the United Reformed Church, the Quakers, Buddhists and the Pagan Federation back gay marriage.

I'll never look at a box of rolled oats the same way again.

4 posted on 07/25/2012 5:07:20 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: markomalley

The Scottish Pagan Federation?

Before you know it, they’ll be demanding the right to marry their sheep.


5 posted on 07/25/2012 5:59:26 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: markomalley
There has to be a gold mine of jokes in here somewhere.

I'm thinking one involves a lass named Cunn O'Lingus, or would that be an Irish broad?

6 posted on 07/25/2012 6:07:08 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: smokingfrog

Tourist walks into a pub in a coastal town and Scotland and orders a drink.

Local guy holding up the bar says, “Hey, laddie, did you see the dock when you came in? I built that with my own hands — but do they call me Angus the Dock Builder? Nooo.”

“And d’ye see this nice, sturdy bar here — built that one as well. Lots of folk lean up against this bar, but am I known as Angus the Carpenter? Nooo.”

“But, just once in yer life, you have sex with a bloody sheep...”


7 posted on 07/25/2012 6:13:07 AM PDT by thanatz
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To: markomalley

That whirring sound you hear is John Knox in his grave.


8 posted on 07/25/2012 7:15:09 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: markomalley; All

In before first Photoshopped picture of William Wallace as a drag queen.


9 posted on 07/25/2012 8:02:52 AM PDT by I Hate Obama ("Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther Party." -Forest Gump)
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To: Kozak

Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick.


10 posted on 07/25/2012 8:05:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: markomalley

Will the Brits still be invoking the right of Prima Nocte?


11 posted on 07/25/2012 8:32:00 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Kozak

I was disgusted this morning when I saw an interview with two guys (about something like exercise, IIRC) in the Wall Street Journal and they identified one of them as the “husband” of the other.

Sorry, that just doesn’t work.


12 posted on 07/25/2012 9:02:04 AM PDT by livius
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To: markomalley

Gives new meaning to...”You take the high road and I’ll take the low.


13 posted on 07/25/2012 9:02:53 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: markomalley

Brokeback Scotland...?


14 posted on 07/25/2012 9:03:57 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Kozak

the sheep must be getting nervous now.

WTH is this equality group anyway, equality means all different types of marriages, family’
s etc so why do those same groups oppose polygamy ?


15 posted on 07/25/2012 9:24:10 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: livius

marriage is one man and one woman and no matter how many boycotts, they do or how the media tries to make it look like the majority goes along with this sick agenda I will never shut up about it nor will I ever go along with it

This Govt can jail me if they like but I will never shut up nor stop telling others or speaking out about it.

Shame many on our side just stay quiet or are cowards.

I;m off to chick-fila in ten minues witht he family and if there is a homosexual there which I doubt and they act up they will hear from me.


16 posted on 07/25/2012 9:32:35 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Kozak
Who gets to wear the kilt?

Click here.

18 posted on 07/25/2012 10:21:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: markomalley

From ‘Brave Heart’ to ‘Bare Arse’ in the course of a few generations. Sad.


19 posted on 07/25/2012 11:03:43 AM PDT by Flashman_at_the_charge (Bill Maher is the de facto court-jester and fundraiser of the Obama regime.)
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To: markomalley
longshanks Pictures, Images and Photos "The problem with Scotland is that it's full of Scots"!
20 posted on 07/25/2012 11:59:35 AM PDT by DFG ("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
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