UKIP MEP: Gay marriage supporters are 'equality Nazis'

Good to see that UKIP is accepting of gay bigots and morons as well as straight ones. Is this kind of attitude akin to the women who are against feminism?

UKIP MEP David Coburn has described some supporters of gay marriage as "equality Nazis".
Mr Coburn, who is himself gay, told the Huffington Post the "militant equality lobby" had caused more homophobic sentiment in Britain.
He said that "everyone had agreed and been quite happy with the idea of a civil partnership".
Those in favour of gay marriage, he said, were simply "trying to give Christianity a jolly good kicking".
During the interview Mr Coburn, who reportedly described himself as "spectacularly homosexual", said the changes to marriage law only mattered to someone who "wants to dress up in a bridal frock and dance up the aisle to the Village People".
He added that some gay rights groups were "professional bombs" primed to "explode" with outrage in response to any perceived slight to gay rights.
Mr Coburn described UKIP as a "gay-friendly" party, and said he had never had any problem with its members over his sexuality.

(BBC News)

Go on youtube and search Uncle Ruckus, same thing

Go on youtube and look up Uncle Ruckus. Pretty much the same thing. It would be comical if it wasn't so sad and absurd.

I don't see the big deal with what he said tbh. Religions as silly as they are have rules, you can't force them to change unless you're going to demand synagogues and mosques etc allow gay marriages too.

But I don't see why gay people would want these religious weddings- as most these religions outlaw/forbid homosexuality in the first place.

There are plenty of other things that make UKIP stupid to vote for, this isn't one though imo.

Religion does not have a monopoly on marriage. As for the different term, well, I've decided that from now on no one is to refer to you as a human. I mean, you'll have all the human rights, but you won't be called human. I'm sure you would have no problem with that, right?

Gay marriage is a pretty meaningless reform, but people never fail to oppose it for the wrong reasons and in the process show a massive soft side when it comes to religion and religious bigotry.

Are there any 'right reasons' to oppose it, though? I understand (and agree with) not 'supporting' it on a political level and opposing the focus on winning these kinds of legal reforms, but I don't see any good reason for someone to actually oppose the individual reform. I guess it's a bit off topic; I've just heard people into the whole "queer liberationism" thing try to make this case, and I think it's pretty bad politics.

That is a good question. To be honest, I don't know, and I suspect there are no good reasons to oppose gay marriage as such. My point was not so much that there are right reasons but that people on RevLeft who oppose gay marriage (as opposed to opposing the demand for gay marriage etc.) tend to do so from a perspective of right-wing capitulation to homophobia and religion rather than stupid ultra-leftist maximalism.

Looks like the UKIP idiots are taking rhetorical advice from the Christian Right over here in the States.

They use the exact same nazi analogies and smarmy rhetoric over here, right down to saying that the government will throw pastors in concentration camps, and having their own token gay guy* willing to throw the entire LGBT community under the bus for his own personal gain.

*(In America's case, it's Robert Oscar Lopez)

You're right. I didn't think of people who get married for non-religious reasons. :o

I always assumed marriage came from religion though, so don't see the point in doing it unless religious.

why folks on a communist forum fail to understand that people may go against their own interests? - the materialist philosophy of communism itself has the answer. It is called money (and am including power etc. in that one word). That's the answer, not some complicated ideological stuff.