You talk about unifying moments? It is not a unifying moment. It is exposing our children to that kind of hatred.
Source: ‘We love our children’: Penny Wong’s Senate speech about marriage plebiscite
Category: Marriage Equality
Nothing about this debate should surprise anyone any more. Even this latest “Dutton Dressed As Glam” development.
Dutton’s Love defined
Married At First Sight.
Which tells you that while Australia as a federation is at this stage not yet ready to allow two women or two men who love each other deeply to get married, we are absolutely relaxed about a man and a woman who have never even met getting hitched for the purposes of KFC brand placement.
Source: There is method to Peter Dutton’s madness on marriage equality
When a panelist on the Drum last night said that John Howard didn’t call for a plebiscite to change the marriage act to specify it as a union between a man and a woman, former Howard government minister Jackie Kelly stridently interrupted, shouting that it was Jesus who said marriage must be between a man…
Source: Give it up to the Lord – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Much has been said about the divisive nature of a plebiscite to decide the question of same-sex marriage. Much has been said about the simplicity of a parliamentary vote. Politics is a cruel animal when it comes to delivering on divisive issues. It reduces otherwise intelligent people to the level of school children misbehaving in…
Source: End These Childish Antics Now! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Comedian says: ‘I don’t want young kids to hear the kind of horrific bile I was forced to listen to’
The numbers have changed, but the arguments haven’t.
Source: Here’s How Things Have Changed Since Australia Banned Same-Sex Marriage – BuzzFeed News
Australia’s largest telco, Telstra, appears to have backflipped on its support for marriage equality, vowing to renew its “active position” on the issue.
Source: Telstra ‘backflip’ on marriage equality support following customer backlash
Human rights lawyer and prominent Jesuit priest Father Frank Brennan says ‘religious freedom’ should be legislated into same-sex marriage law
Whatever the Daily Telegraph pays Piers Akerman to spread his unique brand of ‘commentary’, it’s not enough. So if you’re reading this Rupert Murdoch, double the man’s salary.Akerman’s column this week attacking the independent Australian documentary, Gayby Baby – and the Tele’s complementary campaign of smearing shit all over itself and then grinning like a five-year-old – has done more than any hard working publicist could ever do to promote a film that every Australian should see.
Source: Gayby Baby: Out Of The Mouths Of Babes, And Piers Akerman | newmatilda.com
Billionaire and US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says marriage should be between a man and a woman, and then another woman, and then one more woman.
He said recent laws in the US legalising same-sex marriage went against God’s word. “God stated very clearly that marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a woman that can only be broken through protracted legal negotiations”.
He said he believed wholeheartedly in traditional marriage. “Traditionally I get married about once a decade”.
Trump’s advice to young men considering marriage? “Choose wisely. You will be together for the rest of your next eight years”.
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