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Supporters of LGBT rights take part in an event on same-sex marriage in Central on May 25. Critics of same-sex marriage often appeal to defence of their traditional values, but it is not clear how LGBT rights harm them. Photo: Sam Tsang

Letters | Hong Kong’s same-sex marriage opponents will have to learn to live with tolerance

  • Those who disagree with gay marriage tend to appeal to shared ‘core beliefs’ when they speak only for themselves
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Rosita Ong Che (“Time to stand up for marriage and the family”, May 30) appears to be the sole author of her letter, so who is she representing when she refers to “our core beliefs”? Everybody, it would seem. Did she get everybody’s consent before writing the letter? She certainly did not ask me. Such is the folly of assuming that one’s own views are shared by all when, clearly, they are not.

I am an atheist; my wife is Chinese and a Roman Catholic; one of my daughters and her partner, with their two sons, are happily unmarried. Are married couples from the same ethnic backgrounds suffering because my wife is Chinese, or because one of my daughters is not married? Are Roman Catholics suffering because I am an atheist? If they are, it is their problem, not mine, and they must look for the solution: it’s called tolerance.

I do not understand why gay couples want to get married, but that is because I am not gay. There are unmarried couples who question why anyone would ever get married. Should we listen to them and ban marriage altogether?

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My “core beliefs” allow room for other people’s “core beliefs”. My marriage will not be affected in any way by the marriage of a gay couple, two chimpanzees, or a Venetian and a Martian: health, wealth and happiness to them all!

Peter Robertson, Sai Kung

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