Radio 4 Moral Maze: Gay Marriage Debate

Melanie Philips: Lowest.form.of.human.life. (RealPlayer Listen Again link, may disappear after a week)

I'm almost too angry to type, mostly due to the fact that the cretinous bigotry of these supposedly intelligent people does seem to provide a wonderfully watertight refutation of any sort of belief in humanist progress. Some quotes for you:

"(Heterosexual) Marriage is essential for...the healthy transmission of human identity"
"A lot of homosexual relationships don't bear close (moral) inspection"
"The heterosexual married family is the building brick of society - I think that's pretty irrefutable"
"Do you have any moral problem with homosexuality?" - "Yes I do - Because I am a Christian who believes in Scripture..."

And so on and so forth. This is exceedingly vexing and depressing.

More later, when I am less incandescent.

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