>>>South Africa has legalized gay marriage. First country in Africa to do so and voted by a huge majority in parliment.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6147010.stm>>>
>>>From one of the most backward countries socially to one of most progressive, all in a generation.
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>>Sure, if you call that progress.
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>Back in the sixties and seventies the progressive idea was to not marry at all! (Most of our closest friends and we too have sticked to that idea and still are not married. The facts: 5 couples having 14 children. We sometimes wonder how it will feel when the first child gets married.)
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>Indeed, in our eyes (well, okay, in
my eyes) the 'progressive' gay people who propagate marriage are propagating a quite conservative ideology. BTW, are
you married? :)
Yes, I am married (with a woman).
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)