Well, it's not all good news :-(

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found this fascinating survey on another forum with an interesting discussion: Sex uncovered poll: Homosexuality | Life and style | The Observer

The article does not give any details on who performed the survey, how they performed it (telephone, street survey, internet poll), who paid for it etc. So I have no particular reason to believe its a reliable survey.

some quotes: "Same sex marriage has been legal in the UK since 2005 , but 45 per cent of Britons still feel that gay couples should not be allowed to get married."

This is not quite true. We have Civil Partnerships in the UK, they are a close approximation of Marriage but they are not Marriage. I'd be interested to know how many people are OK with Civil Partnership but not Same Sex Marriage.

"Most striking of all, almost one in four Britons (24 per cent) believe that homosexual sex should be made illegal."

This statistic really makes me suspicious about the accuracy of the poll. I am very doubtful that a quarter of Britons don't think the Police have better things to do than make enquiries as to what is going on in peoples private bedrooms.

That said you are right to point out a somewhat holier than thou tone that has crept into this thread, for which I apologise.

I knew my lame attempt at humor wouldnt be understood but the USA did do away with the Royal Family rule of the USA - wasnt that the point of the Boston Tea Party?

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't "No Taxation without Representation" a great complaint of the time. The implication of which is that the Colonies, rightly, realised that in practice taxes were imposed by Parliament, even if in name they were imposed by HM The King.