Straight Men Marry

[icyfroth]

The marriage of two heterosexual New Zealand men to win tickets to 2015 Rugby World Cup in London in a radio show promotion is horrifying gay rights and conservative groups.

Travis McIntosh, a 23-year-old engineering student from Otago University, and Matt McCormick, a 24-year-old teacher at Musselburgh School in Dunedin, were married at Eden Park in Auckland on Friday.

Otago University Students Association Queer Support coordinator Neill Ballantyne says the wedding is an insult as marriage equality was a hard-fought battle for gay people.

Same-sex marriage became legal in New Zealand in 2013.

Family First, a lobby group opposed to same-sex marriage, says the outrage expressed by gay rights groups is ironic.

National director Bob McCoskrie says the change in law was "an arrogant act of cultural vandalism".

"This competition makes a mockery of marriage, but so did the redefining of marriage."

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[jimmy*part4]

They need to consummate the marriage.

[lionrose.7]

Yes in the middle of Eden Park before the game 🙂

[icyfroth]

wouldn't be the first "marriage of convenience" lol

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Marriage for same sex cpls is now legal so I don't understand the problem with these two young blokes getting married to win a competition.

They probably like each other enough to commit to a long-term relationship.

See?

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It is wrong in the same way that a man and woman going through a marriage ceremony simply so that one of them could get a permanent resident visa would be wrong.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@bushies.girl wrote:

People have a right to an opinion, some think homosexuals/lesbians should be allow to marry, some don't, personally I don't care either way, BUT if I mentioned I was against it, I would be labeled a "homophobic"  ....... Interesting how people are forced into "going with the flow" or else they find themselves discriminated against. 

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And if I said I was against black people marrying whites I would be called a racist.

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@bushies.girl wrote:

People have a right to an opinion, some think homosexuals/lesbians should be allow to marry, some don't, personally I don't care either way, BUT if I mentioned I was against it, I would be labeled a "homophobic"  ....... Interesting how people are forced into "going with the flow" or else they find themselves discriminated against. 

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And if I said I was against black people marrying whites I would be called a racist.

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And rightly so, She-el.

Of course you would never say such a thing. In any case, black marrying white is legal as is same sex cpls marrying. They don't even have to be a homosexual same sex cpl it seems.

So the point is moot.

Being a racist is not illegal either.