Uh, Catholic Church? When advocates for marriage equality pointed out how stupid the "but gays can't have children" argument was on the grounds that you regularly marry heterosexual couples who can't have children (from impotent men to post-menopausal women) - we didn't mean for you to start discriminating against those people too! Read more »
I've said it before... so there's not much point posting on it today. Why repeat myself?
Cross-posted at Terry Flew’s blog.
Most attention in the U.S. Presidential elections has been given to the Democratic Party, and the wide schism revealed in its support base between supporters of Hillary Clinton (majority of women, Latinos, older voters, lower income, lower average levels of education) and Barack Obama (majority of African-Americans, younger voters, higher income, tertiary educated). It has been cast as “a standoff between the Dukes of Hazzard and the Huxtables”, but its fault lines are pretty clear. This cannot be said for the Republican Party going into the 2008 elections. Read more »
So the Coalition can't stop future gay people eventually gaining the same property rights as heterosexuals - but it can screw over those whose partners die in the next few months!
REFORMS to let gay couples inherit each other's federal pensions or superannuation could be delayed until after their proposed July 1 start date as the Coalition moves to refer the issue to a Senate inquiry. Read more »
Yes, I'd like to stop posting on this subject too. And will, as soon as common sense prevails and we stop needing to even have such a debate.
Guy Rundle wrote in yesterday's Crikey about the effect that the Californian Supreme Court's recent unexpectedly logical and sensible decision on the subject of gay marriage (namely, that there is no compelling social reason - as there would be in a ban on incest or polyamoury - to exempt the legislature from the state constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law*) might have on the upcoming American federal election.
Read more »Oh, and before anyone thinks I'm suddenly fond of News - shame to the Herald Sun for publishing this fatuous piece of bigoted drivel from moronic famewhore John Heard, the gay catholic who reckons that just because he doesn't want to get married, other gays shouldn't have the right either. Read more »
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