Sorry, for no apparent reason Nick took his thread and went home so I couldn't answer you there. But the answer to your first was, I saw it more as clarifying, since it seemed you were taking exception though I didn't really see us as opposed in principle. To the second, it depends. If the law is compelling me then I have to resist it and bear the consequence. That wouldn't really have much to do with homosexual marriage, by way of, but would if I was a physician being told I had to assist a suicide.