Yes, agreed with the opening section of the post. I personally feel there's very much a semantic argument you can have over gay marriage. For example, I am against it in name, but am definitely not against it in terms of allowing gay people to be 'married' in the sense of having the same rights as straight married couples. Marriage is, in the bible, a union between a man and a woman. Now, I don't necessarily agree with that, but the point stands that you can't have gay marriage unless you redefine what marriage is. Therefore, I'm more than happy for gay people to form a union, but I just wouldn't call it marriage.
I don't really get this post. Yes, of course there are some racists who don't want anyone 'foreign' in the UK. But there are loads of people in favour of immigration to a point, but not to an open door policy. Will Self wasn't accepting that. Hitchens' comments about drugs I agreed with entirely, but I'll leave that one.
See what I said to Plech. You can be in favour of gay people, gay partnerships, gay everything, just not the name 'gay marriage'.