What I would like to know from Messrs West and Queervanguard is what is their attitude is towards gay marriages which have recently been formalised and legalised in a number of countries. Personally I'm all for it; its one in the eye for homophobes everywhere. But these two individuals have asserted repeatedly that the SPGB was completely remiss in not including the slogan "abolish the familiy" in their party political broadcast on TV.
What, then, do they say to a gay couple who would like to marry and formalise their relationship by constituting themselves as a familiy unit bound together by affinal ties? Is this a good thing in their view or not and ,if it is, how do they square it with their (frankly untenable) idea that the family
per se - not just the patriarchal monogamous bourgeois form of family - would disappear in socialism?