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Scottish parliament passes gay ‘marriage’ 105-18
Life Site News ^ | February 4, 2014 | Hilary White

Posted on 02/04/2014 8:57:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Tonight Scotland became the 11th jurisdiction in the European Union and the 17th in the world to create gay “marriage” in a vote at Holyroodhouse of 105-18. This leaves only Northern Ireland as the last jurisdiction in the United Kingdom to retain the traditional legal definition of marriage between one man and one woman.

Health Secretary Alex Neil said he expected the first “gay marriages” could take place this autumn. “We’re doing a remarkable thing today, we are saying on behalf of Scotland to the world, loud and clear that we believe in recognizing love between same sex couples as we do between opposite sex couples,” he said.

Neil reiterated that clergy celebrants of marriage ceremonies who could not in conscience participate would be protected by the “safeguards,” but the legislation does not mention the rights of non-clerical citizens. The Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian denomination that represents the majority of Scotland’s Christian believers, said in September that it might simply give up officiating at marriages should the legislation pass.

At the time of the vote, 54,000 people had signed a petition asking the government to drop the idea. A spokesman for the marriage campaign group Scotland for Marriage said the petition was submitted to the government with the addresses of signatories removed out of fears of discrimination. Redacting these details was “an absolute necessity to protect the rights and freedoms of ordinary men and women with traditional views on marriage which are under threat,” the Christian Institute reports.

“We really are facing the prospect of people being discriminated against in their own homes, at work and at schools if this Bill progresses in its present form,” the Scotland for Marriage spokesman added.

Scotland for Marriage had asked for amendments to the bill to protect not only clergy from having to participate, but also ordinary citizens who might be caught in a conflict between the law and their conscience, including civil marriage registrars and marriage counselors. The group had also called for a public referendum on the issue.

Campaigners threatened MSPs who supported the bill, saying they would lose their seats in the next election cycle. This prediction has come early for one Tory MSP, who voted for the bill tonight and has already been “de-selected” by his local party riding association in South Suffolk. Tim Yeo, a former Conservative minister and an MP for 30 years, lost a secret vote that polled 600 Tory members.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; scotland; scotlandyet
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1 posted on 02/04/2014 8:57:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sick.


2 posted on 02/04/2014 8:57:27 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What with kilts and all, what do you expect.


3 posted on 02/04/2014 8:58:26 PM PST by doc1019
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What about Sheep?


4 posted on 02/04/2014 8:58:56 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

it must be the haggis...


5 posted on 02/04/2014 9:00:03 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: bigbob

63% of the sheep think this will bode well for them.

37% know what comes next, and aren’t celebrating...


6 posted on 02/04/2014 9:00:34 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Amnesty is job NONE! It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics.)
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To: DoughtyOne

aye!


7 posted on 02/04/2014 9:04:08 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: bigbob

The 37% are convinced, and are saying, “It’s gonna get baaaad.”


8 posted on 02/04/2014 9:05:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Amnesty is job NONE! It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Och, I dinna understand it either, but if they say haggis wants to git married I dinna see why not...what? ‘Faggots’? What sort of a dish is that?”


9 posted on 02/04/2014 9:05:26 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; SunkenCiv

This seems like a good time to sing “Donald, Where’s Your Trewsers?”


10 posted on 02/04/2014 9:05:33 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I imagine John Knox is spinning in his grave.


11 posted on 02/04/2014 9:06:14 PM PST by Robwin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is neither “gay” nor is it “marriage”. What fools these mortals be.


12 posted on 02/04/2014 9:06:37 PM PST by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: the scotsman

>> 105-18

Do the people of Scotland support this in the same ratio?


13 posted on 02/04/2014 9:07:23 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems like the queers are wining,


14 posted on 02/04/2014 9:08:59 PM PST by doc1019
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most Scotsmen are gay anyway.


15 posted on 02/04/2014 9:11:55 PM PST by MNnice
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To: doc1019
Mr.McGregor was sitting at a bar in Scotland. He taps the young man sitting next to him on the shoulder and says (in a heavy Scottish accent), “You see that fence out there? Well I built it board by board, nail by nail with my own two hands! But do they call me McGregor the fence builder? Nooooooo!”
And then he points to a dock extending out to the lake and he says, “Do you see that dock? Well I built that too. Board by board, nail by nail with my own two hands! But do they call me McGregor the fence builder? Noooooooo!!”
Then finally he says, “And this bar we're sitting at. I built it too. Board by board, nail by nail with my own two hands! But do they call me Mcgregor the bar builder?? Nooooo!!!”
“But you f-— one goat”...
16 posted on 02/04/2014 9:11:55 PM PST by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Its a low day for my ancestry a low day indeed

Why have you turned from the sight of the Almighty to the darkness that plagues the world ?

17 posted on 02/04/2014 9:12:43 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (I'm not afraid to say what i mean nor should you be afraid of what you know to be true !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gay marriage...... Its the latest craze! Sweeping all the wealthy degenerate nations in the West. I never hear anything about gay marriage from Korea or Japan. Nor China.


18 posted on 02/04/2014 9:13:56 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet another occasion where tyranny reigns. They were too scared to put it to referendum.


19 posted on 02/04/2014 9:14:07 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: DoughtyOne

I see you like baaaad jokes, so don’t miss post #16.


20 posted on 02/04/2014 9:16:46 PM PST by bramps (Go West America!)
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