I sometimes have hypothetical conversations in my head with my dead parents who were stalwart Catholics and who are probably turning in their graves now this has been passed. I think I would have probably said something to them like, attitudes have changed since you were young and this is no big deal for the present generation and they are the ones that will take this new legislation forward, it's their time now. I know my children wouldn't bat an eyelid at a gay marriage. My parents' generation expected same sex relationships to be conducted covertly because possibly they thought it was some sort of affliction, and something that you could give up with a bit of self control, like smoking. Me, I don't believe anyone chooses their sexuality I think it's something you are born with and if my child was gay I would just want them to be happy. I don't have any hangups about this new law I just think it's part and parcel of a changing society. I understand some peoples' reticence about the matter due to their religion or they simply feel much of what they grew up with is being swept away. Ultimately we have to live and let live, as long as our behaviour does not affect anyone else in a negative way and I don't believe a marriage between two people of the same sex should do that. In my head if I couldn't convince my parents of the "times they are a changing" as someone once said, then I would revert to my favourite refrain of perhaps you should just focus a bit more on much of the wrong doing in your church that has been swept under the carpet. That usually shut them up!