I'm not arguing for or against gay rights (especially in other countries), but the article seems to answer your concern: Latvians don't want them to go any further at all, and resent foreigners coming over and trying to promote them.

I myself was trying to avoid "as the Bishop said to the actress" style comments, but I daresay they'll come in force.

 

The poor young man in the photo looks like the Mysterons are on to him!

As for arguments against gay rights:

1. Being gay is not natural and should therefore be rejected. Just like how straight Americans reject such unnatural things as eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2. Gay marriage will encourage straight people to become gay. Just like marriage between two tall people encourages people to be tall.

3. Legalizing (or at least failing to prohibit) gay marriage will encourage people to do such crazy things as marrying pets. This would be possible since an animal has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4. Straight marriage has been around for so long that it has become an unchangeable marriage tradition along with the similarly unchangeable marriage traditions of treating women as property, preventing blacks from marrying whites, and keeping divorce illegal.

5. Gay marriage would destroy the sanctity of straight marriage. The sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55-hour marriage to Kevin Federline Jason Alexander must be protected.

6. Straight marriages are allowed because they produce children. This is why gay marriages, marriages with one infertile partner, marriages between old people, and marriages where the couple does not want to produce children are all invalid. It is necessary for all couples to produce their own children because all of the world’s orphanages are empty and there are no children anywhere in need of homes or families.

7. Gay parents will raise only gay children since straight parents raise only straight children.

8. Gay marriage goes against the beliefs of certain religions. Since America is a theocracy, the beliefs of those certain religions should be forced upon those who feel differently.

9. Children cannot succeed with out male and female role models at home. That’s why only morally superior people have children and why single-parent families are also expressly forbidden.

10. Gay marriage will change the foundations of our society so much that we will be unable to adapt to them. This is why we, as a society, as been unable to adapt to the automobile, the culture of consumption, the service-sector economy, or longer average life spans.

(Courtesy of CrazyDrumGuy)

Only someone living beyond the shores of CONUS would ask that question!
The USA is the known world (as far as most of the folks I know are concerned). Everything else is geography.

I wouldn't dream of making any demands of you, Teleplasm.

I don't think Tony Blair actually likes buggery. He just grins and bears it.

(PS. More serious post to follow later.)

I'm a bit concerned that my OED says that 'buggery' can equally refer to sodomy or bestiality....