A poem a week for 2012 - a record of a year in the life of...

Ben Summerskill...'Our Strong Advice to anyone who disagrees with same-sex marriage, is not to get married to someone of the same sex...'

Let's all the normal people, own marriage...

Let not the marriage of true minds
Find impediment in Church or Government. In definition of sexuality.

Where's the humanity In our democracy
If yet again the divisions and schisms;
The derisions are allowed to play out their public voice

Against private thoughts, personal beliefs.
Those grandiose chiefs with their
Bowler hats and flat caps decreeing

Do you, Mr Normal, take this...?

 to be your normal wedded life?

From the comfort of their self satisfaction and congratulation,
Their Absolute rules of 

you may now kiss the bride?

...being normal....
our contrafibulations...

The Church does not own marriage nor have the exclusive right to say who can marry, a government minister says. – BBC news 25 February 2012