I've never really understood why there is such a huge obsession with putting gay marriage to referendum. Why - from every single issue that parliaments and congresses discuss - does this one issue create such a unique desire to be placed on the ballot? Social conservatives are such weirdos :/ (no offence to anybody here)
I remember that the opponents in France were denouncing a 'change of civilization'. I agree with them (except that I supported this change while they opposed it).
Eh, still not seeing it. Marriage is a vastly different institution to what it was a hundred years ago or so. The idea that all marriages should be based on love is pretty new - the law is just catching up with a different social situation.
Besides, I would argue that things like easy divorce or equalising both partners roles were far more radical "changes of civilisation" that affected more people, and nobody wants a referendum on them...
