How forumites have evolved (or not) on equal marriage

[anvi]

I suspect Angus is right on the social change issue, at least for the most part.  But, personally speaking, I've been in favor of gay marriage for more than twenty years.  I thought that long before I attended any gay marriage service or was even aware that anyone I knew was gay.  Denying citizens equal rights to marry based on their sexual orientation just seemed fundamentally wrong in a place with our supposed ideals.  I have no problem with people having religious objections to it, but if people want to live in a state that protects their religious ideals with the civil law, they should move to somewhere like Iran or Saudi Arabia.  I've just thought that way since my early twenties.   

[anvi]

We cannot all be armchair intellectuals all the time in other words.

I resent that...I'm a sofa intellectual.  The idea that anyone should think while sitting up implies that I should be coming up with ideas while I'm in my office, and that's just fkg wrong.