The Church does not “own” marriage nor have the exclusive right to say who can marry, Liberal Democrat Lynne Featherstone, equalities minister in the coalition government, has said in commenting on the same sex marriage issue.
Actually Lynne, my little leftie rage-babe, I think you will find the Church do own marriage.
Personally I don’t give a toss about same sex marriage, so long as churches are not forced to perform them. However I do think politicians who try to politicise sex and relationships should be taken outside and shot.
BTW I recently reread Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 in which the character General Dreedle believed taking people outside and shooting them was the answer to everything. I mention that because I don’t want people thinking Jeremy Clarkson invented it. He’s obvously read some decent books though.
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would this be the Lynne Featherstone who spent over £22,000 in one month on stationary and whilst minister in charge of ending sexism. she blamed men for the mess the world was in.:>>
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The very same. And she has the worst nose job since Michael Jackson.
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Clarkson can read?
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Course he can. You didn’t think they made up Top Gear off the top of their heads did you.
It’s all on autocue.
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Silly me. And James May is quite a clever troll…
who got fired from Autocar for some reason or other.
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The church own marriage…Just don’t tell that to the registry offices! 😉
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Civil weddings are a different thing, they are the legal part of it. The church bit is the spiritual commitment – unless you keep your fingers crossed like I did. :))
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Keeping your fingers crossed excuses a lot of misdemeanour’s, does it? 😉
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Ros,
It has in my case, we’re still together after celebrating 38 years last week 😀
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Too right. Register Office weddings are the real thing, with real promises and no mumbo jumbo. (Is my bias showing?)
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Yes.
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See if I care. Mrs Wife and I own our wedding, which was made in a proper Register Office, with real Laws, no religion, and the permission of her cats. Can’t get more owned than cat-owned…
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Indeed. People think they own the cats, but its really the cats that rule them. See how humanity bows to serve the cat when it’s hungry?
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Give a dog a warm home, feed it and care for it, and it will think you are a god.
Give a cat a warm home, feed it and care for it, and it will think it is a god.
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Real promises in registry office. I’ve heard there is just as high a divorce rate for civil weddings as those carried out in Church.
You don’t have to be religious to make promises you’ve no intention of keeping.
I can say ‘I love you’ in eight languages and not mean it in any of them. :>
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I agree that same-sex marriages should not be held in a church. They should be held at the very end of Brighton pier where no-one can see two loons making fools of themselves!
The church should have a say.definitely
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I think Tangier would be more suitable as a venue for gay civil relationships, in honour of William Burroughs. I don’t know which church you mean by “the2 church, but they should not be allowed to be in charge of anything outside their own buildings.
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Bother. Please read that 2 as a quote mark…
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Churches aren’t in charge of anything outside their own buildings. They want to stay in charge of what goes on inside their buildings.
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