Time we said ‘I do’ to equal marriage rights

MUCH kerfuffle at the moment about equal marriage rights.

It’s baffling, all the fuss. The anti-equality campaigners seem to be stuck on the semantics of it, repeating over and over that marriage is between a man and a woman. Well, yes, of course it is. Nobody is disputing that. Nobody wants to ban marriage between people with differing dangly bits – that would be absurd, and unfair. Men and women can continue to get as married as they like, for as long as they like, to whomever they like. No problem. Nobody is proposing that marriage gets taken away from anybody — quite the opposite, in fact.

Duh. So why are the antis in such a tizz? It’s not like marriage is a finite resource, something that may soon run out, like oil. No, the concept behind marriage — love, commitment — is infinite, and shows no signs of drying up. Plenty to go around. Enough for us all.