Hi Irina, I answer in english because i am not sure i'll be able to express this properly in chinese! Actually most people wouldn't care that much about gay marriage as such. It's just the first step towards a big legislative change regarding children and the whole concept of "family". Most people disagree strongly about gay couples having the rights to have children. I think our new government might open the right for lesbian couples to legally have children (through assisted reproductive technology and sperm donor). Our neighbours allow it: Belgium and Spain which means lots of gay couples go there to have children and it's "rather" easy. I think I could write pages and pages about this topic, I find it very interesting from an ethical and social point of view because it makes you wonder about : who has the right to become parent ? Think about teenagers having babies because of a one night stand. They have the right to have babies. Wouldn't this child be better raised by a gay adult couple? Lots of questions and I don't know the answers. I would be in favour of this right given to gay couples because nowadays the traditional family model is dead. So when you have 2 adults wanting so much to have a baby, putting a lot of money and efforts to make this happen, carefully thinking about the consequences, i don't know why we shouldn't allow this. I read a lot about this topic as i have tons of gay friends but i also have lots of catholic friends who are not really open-minded !

但是同性恋结婚是现代的事情。 《同性婚姻》 在英国，很大的反对声音来自于教堂。但是，作为一个没有宗教信仰的人，我真的很难理解这些争论。事实上，我觉得任何反对同性恋婚姻的争论都很难理解。 我个人看来，结婚就是两件事。一、婚礼。这是庆祝两人爱情的典礼，并给人们一个机会在公开场合彼此承诺、与家人朋友一起庆祝。我不觉得这对于相同性别或不同性别的人能有什么不同。 二、结婚是一个法律事情。它让人们共享他们的生活、财产、房子、金钱以及其他。再一次的，这跟性别是否相同基本没什么关系。 所以我不明白到底为什么有人要反对同性婚姻，尤其在中国，教堂的势力也不是很大。 作者：英国使馆政务参赞Dan Chugg

我觉得同性恋是很正常的事情，自古以来就有。