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Published Date: 04 June 2008
THE mayor of a tiny Aegean island was charged with breach of duty after conducting Greece's first same-sex marriage ceremonies yesterday, in defiance of a prosecutor's order branding them illegal.
Tasos Aliferis, the Tilos mayor, held the civil ceremonies for two gay and lesbian couples shortly after dawn, provoking the wrath of conservative church officials and the country's justice minister.

"This is a huge step forward for human rights in Greece," said Evangelia Vlami, one of the newlyweds.





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  • Last Updated: 03 June 2008 10:18 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Hemingway,

Ayr 04/06/2008 01:07:55
It’s an abomination to think you can wed such people, the outcome is not marriage.
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Scullion,

Canada 04/06/2008 02:03:47
#1 Marriage is a contract, pure and simple. People from Liz Taylor to Britney Spears have put paid to any thought of it being a sacrement. As it is a contract, people who have the legal rights to enter into it should be able to do so.
Besides, what have you against people being happy?
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bilI,

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Why on earth would two blokes want to get married in the first place?
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Horrible Cankers at the Cyber Shebeen,

04/06/2008 11:36:18
Why would anybody want to get married?...but there is no reason for gay people not to...its roots lie in archaic laws which have thankfully changed over the centuries...now dont you think its about time that we did?....or shall we just remain on the shelf gathering layers of dust along with our many moans?
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Scullion,

Canada 04/06/2008 14:00:23
My goodness, someone posing as me at #7. Is this a complement?
I trust regular readers of these posts would be able to discern the false vulgar posts(#7) from the merely dim-witted ones (all of my valid posts).
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Saoghal Beag,

04/06/2008 14:23:09
green booger what a twisted mind you have. as the entire function of a marriage in your books is procreation do you define childless couples as unmarried, unnormal? as does Ardanaiseig.

You fill your head with too many thoughts of perversion, of which there are too many to count, and gay folk do not have the exclusive rights to those.

Procreation not recreation, is that what you call as you march the streets banging your tambourine of justice?
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Horrible Cankers at the Cyber Shebeen,

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9....Indeed.....just ignore it....
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zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 04/06/2008 20:23:05
Do you think heterosexual couples don't do any of these things? Anyway, is your rationale for banning something or saying it's immoral that you don't like it or it might be harmful to the willing participants?
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Saoghal Beag,

04/06/2008 20:37:17
putrid, just like green booger you object to gay, male on male sex and use some dodgey biased medical justification. On that basis though i assume that you both fully support lesbian couples as they are at considerably less risk of STD, than women who allow men to poke thier bits into them.
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Saoghal Beag,

04/06/2008 20:41:39
21 zeno, fully paid up members of the procreation not recreation crew. if it isn't for creating babies it can't be done. bigots and homophobes who hide behind the bible in fear of acknowledging their greatest fears arise from the thoughts in thier own heads.
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John Blackley,

Florida 04/06/2008 20:58:50
Ah, gay marriage! Nothing like it to bring on a bout of irrationality.

What people do with one-another in the privacy of their own homes/hotel rooms/vehicles/public toilet stalls is nothing to do with me. I choose to not contemplate it, endorse or criticise it.

What gay people choose to call marriage is an emblem of their commitment to one another and, more important, a legal obligation in many places for governments, employers and other institutions to accord them the same rights offered to heterosexual spouses. Again, I have no problem with any of that.

Where many heteros get their Jockeys in a jumble is the word itself. They see it as somehow degrading the 'value' of heterosexual marriage (as if heteros themselves aren't busy doing that) and somehow giving people who are 'other' a leg up in the respectability stakes.

To me, it's semantics.
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St Enoch Centre 04/06/2008 22:56:10
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thats really sick what homosexuals do in private and it does add to the cost of the worlds health care costs for their sick behaviour the many pay for the few i cant believe a couple gays here are saying hetros do the same sick stuff like its the norm
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zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 05/06/2008 00:50:38
John Blackley (#24): Spot on.

Night Worker (#25): Just because it (apparently) makes you sick and/or because you don't do it, is no basis for morality or illegality. Your 'argument' seems to be that because it costs the health service money, it should be banned. Do you also apply your logic to mountain climbers and even car drivers?
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zeno,

GLASGOW 05/06/2008 07:50:33
Bill: Car driving and mountain climbing (or hang gliding or skiing, etc) are very high risk - just look at the numbers killed or injured on the roads. Should we not make it illegal because of the health costs? That is what Night Worker seems to be arguing and I suggested that that alone was a totally insufficient reason for 'banning' homosexual practices - although how on earth that could be done is up to the likes of Night Worker and others to say!
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www.thinkhumanism.com 05/06/2008 23:06:51
Bill: Apart from the glaring inaccuracies in your last post, I'm still not clear why you seem to think homosexuality is wrong. You seem to have touched on several potential reasons: is it because you find it 'deviant', because you think that men are not 'meant' to have sex with men or simply because of the alleged cost to the health service?
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Saoghal Beag,

06/06/2008 15:02:42
zeno, bill's graps on reality is equal to his grasp of basic biology, one cell thick. if his bowels are that thin it explains why he is so full of sh***.

Bill AIDS is not a problem caused by gays, it is a disease caused by a virus. your comments are offensive, as i am sure they are intedned to be, but they show you up for the intollerant, judgemental bigot that you are. Which part of the bible encourages such attributes?
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zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 08/06/2008 09:43:15
Bill: the facts are not on your side and you haven't answered my question about why you seem to think homosexuality is wrong.

 

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