I don’t want to gay marry a dog. I don’t want to gay marry a frog. I don’t want to gay marry my mother. I don’t want to gay marry my brother. I don’t even want to gay marry significant other. I don’t gay wash. I don’t gay iron. I …
Imagine a society where we only did things if they had been traditionally done. …if we go back 50 years in Australia, the indigenous population were not allowed to vote; that was 1967. …if we go back 50 years in Australia, people were still being executed for crimes. Technically that wasn’t …
There’s a plethora of standard arguments used as to why same-sex marriage shouldn’t be permitted. I want to quickly run them over with a bit of logic: Marriage is traditionally between a man and a woman. Actually, same-sex marriage was practiced in many parts of society, and indeed even the …
The great French thinker, Voltaire, is famously quoted as saying: “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This has shaped a great deal of Western democracies, either directly or subtly, and it undoubtedly has its place. But it’s time …
Some of the opponents to same-sex marriage claim that if we start letting men marry men, and women marry women, we’ll end up in a situation where, say: A man and a man want to marry another man; A woman and a woman want to marry another woman; A man …
In The Age: Labor’s Right slams gay reform, the right leaning faction of the Labor party finally reveals that it doesn’t really care about representing the people, just some people – presumably the people who agree with it. Regarding the discussions within Labor about changing its official stance towards same-sex marriage: …
I said / you said / he said / she said. I admit, I’m biased. English is my natural language, and other than a few programming languages I’m hopelessly inept at any other language. I can introduce myself and ask if someone speaks English in French, and know the word …
In a moderately homophobic article, titled “Gay ‘marriages’ to be allowed in church“, the UK Telegraph discusses the impending protests of religious groups in the United Kingdom when proposed legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry in churches passes. The Telegraph goes on to say: Pope Benedict said same-sex marriage was …
Over at Crikey in December, @pollytics wrote yet another one of his fascinating summaries of polling information – this time on the topic of same-sex marriage. It’s a fantastic, in-depth analysis of the polls, and I’d highly recommend you have a good read of it. For those wanting the quick …
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