Most people, I believe, want to be kind, want to be tolerant, and want, indeed, to follow the Christian precept of “love thy neighbour”.
One of the reasons why many people in Ireland voted for the legalisation of same-sex marriage was just that: they wanted to be kind, tolerant and friendly to their neighbours. They might not always believe that marriage between persons of the same sex is “equal” to marriage between those of the opposite sex. Many Christians of all denominations may still privately think that marriage is essentially between a man and a woman, and, as it says in the Book of Common Prayer, first ordained for the procreation of children.
