The point is that the real politics of real people isn't a simple left-right axis.
The old Conservative party of Thatcher / Major was socially and ecnomically conservative.
New Labour and the current Conservative party are socially much more liberal.
The political compass idea- with an economic left-right axis and a social liberal-authoritarian axis- is a much better way of describing things.
Cameron's Conservative Party were economically right-wing, but socially more towards the liberal end. They sell off and privatise anything that isn't nailed down, they pull social welfare funding, but they (rightly, I should add) legalise marriage for gay people.
Blair's Labour Party were economically pretty centrist- they were much to the left of Cameron- but socially about the same as Cameron's government.
Thatcher's Conservative Party was economically about the same as Cameron's government, but socially significantly more authoritarian.
clappers said:
The problem is in a politically correct world a belief that gay marriage is a bad thing for marriage, is the equivalent of saying homosexuals are bad people, when it is nothing of the sort.
I hate to break it to you, but it is saying that. It is making a value judgment about what the "right" sort of relationship between two consenting adults should be. There is no logical or rational basis for believing that a relationship between two consenting adult gay people is of less value and less worthy of marriage than a relationship between two consenting adult heterosexual people. It is purely a subjective opinion.
It's also a moronic opinion. I agree with gay marriage. My best friend, my best person at my wedding, is a married lesbian. But I'm a man married to a woman. And no amount of legalising gay marriage is going to make me divorce my wife and marry a man instead. If someone thinks it will then, respectfully, I can't help but wonder what feelings they are trying to bury.
Marriage is a legal cementing of a relationship between two loving, consenting adult humans. There's absolutely no reason why this can't or shouldn't extend to gay people who meet that criteria.