A remarkable editorial, below, from The Australian today, showing the dramatic change - for no apparent reason other than the power of PR - in assumptions concerning the desirability of same-sex marriage.
Thoroughly modern marriage
The Australian, 20th August 2013, editorial
BRIAN Greig, the first self-declared homosexual in federal parliament, claimed that in 10...
SBS Insight – the art of seeking & finding offence
Two 'day after' reports on the SBS gay marriage forum deserve mention, for their first-hand account of the studious way in which gay activists will find offence where fair-minded people would find none.
First, panel member Michael Cooke writes at Mercatornet:
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Penny Wong, the politician, dominated the evening. She brought to the studio the...
SBS Insight on gay marriage – full video & partial transcript
AMF President contribution at 24:14mins
JENNY BROCKIE: Okay, David, you're a GP and a local member of the Liberal National Party in Queensland. Your response? DR DAVID VAN GEND: It seems to me that we're getting away from the foundation of marriage. We're talking about ethnic colouring to marriage,...
Senator Wong v Dr van Gend tonight: "I'm not going to engage in that"
See how worried Senator Wong becomes as soon as marriage is reframed in terms of the child's right to a mum and a dad... This excerpt from tonight's SBS Insight forum (full show Tuesday 13th 8.30 pm SBS, repeated 1pm Wed 14th) sees the AMF President, Dr David van Gend, put it to Senator Wong...
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South Aus says no to Same-Sex Marriage
The SA Parliament has rejected an absurd attempt to usurp Federal responsibility for marriage in the Constitution of Australia. Vexatious politicians like those who brought this Bill should have to 'bear costs' like vexatious litigants: refund the taxpayers for wasted time and resources of the State Parliament.
A good report at the ACL website,...
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AMF in The Aus: "the marriage of two men means a motherless family"
Pity the child of same sex union
by: David van Gend From: The Australian June 03, 2013
ATHEIST philosopher Bertrand Russell said, "It is through children alone that sexual relations become of importance to society and worthy to be taken cognisance of by a legal institution." The legal institution of marriage is, as anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss puts...Getting to the heart of the matter on marriage
This is worth a read, the latest in a series of worthwhile articles at the ABC 'religion and ethics' site, by Andrew Errington of Sydney.
Excerpts:
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What I want to do here, therefore, is to attempt to recover and draw out the deep underlying issue at the heart of opposition to same-sex marriage - an...
"I’m gay and I OPPOSE same-sex marriage". Read to understand why…
Gay man, Doug Mainwaring, warns about the harm to kids of same-sex marriage:
"Over several years, intellectual honesty led me to some unexpected conclusions: (1) Creating a family with another man is not completely equal to creating a family with a woman, and (2) denying children parents of both genders at home is an objective evil....
US Supreme Court "marriage" case commences
How have we come to this? That the land of Lincoln and rugged common-sense should be debating the surreal notion of "marriage" between two men?
A professor of law from the US gives the most thoughtful introduction to this thoughtless proposition: Hadley Arkes, Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College, writes -
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The Supreme Court...
Kiwis come to their senses – but too late?
New Zealand, with its single parliamentary chamber, is always ripe for radical legislative change. The push for homosexual marriage is running into a surge of belated resistance, as the country;s main paper reported on 25th March under the heading "Shock Poll over Gay Marriage Bill":
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Public opposition to same-sex marriage has grown significantly...