Singer Cliff Richard backs same-sex marriage

- 22/10/2011 22:49:11

He has obviously mellowed in his dotage. He seems to be really embracing the message of Love that Jesus espoused.

- 20/10/2011 12:02:50

He's nearer the end than the beginning of his career so perhaps he feels he can start to be honest with himself and the public. Beats me why this is even an issue. We have equality in terms of the delivery of goods and services, employment, age of consent, etc. 'Marriage' is a religious concept. Why anyone gay would want to support a reliously-inspired tradition, when religion has aleays been the traditional and main enemy of gay rights, astounds me. By the same token, it's simply 'tradition' which drives heterosexual couples with no religious beliefs whatsoever to marry in a church. Silly, hypocritical and pointless and, in my opinion, affording organised religion a more important societal role than it deserves.

- 19/10/2011 18:48:54

Richard seems to have become more gay-friendly in his old age. In 1977 he declared: “Homosexuality in my mind will never be normality because I can see what normality means is a man and a woman procreating”. Also, he is an Evangelical Christian who has been guest-of-honour at rallies like Billy Graham’s, so one wonders how this new-found attitude will go down with his fellow evangelicals who are ultra homophobic.