Of Course, I Could Be Wrong...: GUMBY OF THE DAY

Friday, 2 March 2012

GUMBY OF THE DAY

From THE EVENING TELEGRAPH:

The Home Office has defended proposals to allow gay marriages after Welllingborough’s MP called them “completely nuts”.

Peter Bone urged the Church of England to block plans for same-sex weddings during a Parliamentary discussion on the matter.

Speaking exclusively to the Evening Telegraph last night, Mr Bone said: “It’s just a simple thing that a marriage is between a man and a woman, therefore that’s it. It’s not anti-civil partnership or anything like that, I just take a view that a marriage is between a man and a woman."

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Well, there you have it. "It’s just a simple thing that a marriage is between a man and a woman, therefore that’s it." If only Mr Bone had told us that when all this same sex marriage thing started it would have saved us all a lot of aggro and having to think for ourselves.

Oh, and, of course, we believe you when you say you're "not anti-civil partnership or anything like that." I'm sure you haven't got a homophobic bone in your body, Bone.

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UKViewer2 March 2012 17:05
Aptly named. 'Bone' attach head to it and it says what's needed.
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