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If Portugal can allow same-sex marriage, why not Australia? : Comments

By Rodney Croome, published 8/7/2010

It is disappointing to many Australians that Julia Gillard believes only opposite-sex partners should be allowed to marry.

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davidf: I hadn't heard about that but went and read up on it. I am absolutely dismayed at the evil some people do under the guise of being Christian.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html?_r=1

runner: You should read that story. It's dumbfounding.
Posted by Pynchme, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 6:52:41 PM
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Wellll well well..RODNEY pops his head up again....hmmmm

He also asks a silly question for which he seeks a knee jerk emotive sentimental answer rather than a rational one.

When Rodney was at the 'Gay Marriage' debate in Hawthorn some weeks ago, he was asked by Bill Muhlenberg the following question:

"If Gay marriage is allowed, what is there to stop other groups such as polyandry (and other permutations) lobbyists from demanding the same right"?

Rodney sought refuge in the "No..because.. no...err..because.. just because" well actually he said "Australia is traditionally a one man one woman society and so it wouldn't happen" which to me is the equivalent.

JOKE TIME... Rodney is joining the comedy festival for sure.

In the year before he made this profound observation about Aussie traditions, Kaysar Trad raised the issue of Polygamy and said we should have a debate about it......

Nuff said Rodney.. case is proven, you were wrong, are wrong and will continue to be wrong on that..and no..we DON'T want "Gay Marriage" because to many of us the very thought of a man 'marrying' a man is disgusting and insulting and an abomination to our Creator.
Not to mention a step in the delcine of our values and social cohesian from which we would be unlikely to recover.
Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Sunday, 18 July 2010 5:31:57 PM
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David "is disgusting and insulting and an abomination to our Creator"

If your creator existed and was at all concerned about human activities being considered insulting or an abomination she would have much bigger things to deal with than two consenting adults marrying.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_evangelist_scandals
- http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
- etc, etc, etc

For a more local context (not to the same scale as the previous but insulting to any concept of a praiseworthy creator)
- http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=109&page=0#2085 (that one's views on the sexual appeal of 9 years old's is seriously creepy, and you should see how often alsatians pop up in a sexual context in his posts)

And if any kind of weird world any of that does in any way reflect the character of a creator then we should take every opportunity to offend such a vile concept.

R0bert
Posted by R0bert, Sunday, 18 July 2010 6:40:05 PM
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Al, your posts make my heart heavy. So sad.

"It is never legitimate to use the words of Scripture to promote a loveless agenda." - Right Rev. Dr. Peter Short, Moderator of the United Church of Canada

Such as here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html?_r=1

<"The Bible has been perverted to uphold slavery, apartheid and segregation, to malign Jews and other non-Christian people of faith, to support Hitler's Third Reich, to resist medical science and to rebuke inter-racial marriage. It has been used to execute women as witches, to defend the racism of the Ku Klux Klan and to perpetrate intolerance and discrimination of women and sexual minorities. It took the Catholic Church 359 years to admit that they were wrong when they accused Galileo of heresy and condemned him to death unless he recanted that the earth rotates around the sun. Oh yes! The Bible has been misused and misinterpreted often over the years, and it has been misinterpreted regarding the issue of homosexuality.">

http://christiangays.com/articles/jesus_loves_me.shtml

Al - what do you think about what's happened and happening in Uganda?

I'm a middle aged, straight all my life, married mother; feminist and Christian. How is it that you aren't as passionately opposed to violence against women; to sexual abuse of children and so on? I never see you posting about those things.

(Robert, I agree with you).
Posted by Pynchme, Sunday, 18 July 2010 8:39:24 PM
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>> Rodney sought refuge in the "No..because.. no...err..
>> because.. just because" well actually he said "Australia
>> is traditionally a one man one woman society and so it
>> wouldn't happen"

Anyone inclined to give this assertion the benefit of the doubt is free to follow the entire discussion on the ABC's Big Ideas program: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/05/25/2907852.htm

Croome's response to Muehlenberg's claims about the slippery slope to polyamory starts at around the 27:45 mark. This is what he said:

"We understand marriage in our society as being the union between two people. In those other places which have recognised same-sex relationships … same-sex marriages it's been the same. That's why, in those places, polygamy, polyamory, hasn't been the immediate outcome. Bill, you haven't been able to explain why in Canada, or in the Netherlands, or in Spain, or in Mexico they don't allow polyamorous relationships. I would say it's because of that very deeply entrenched expectation that marriage is between two people."

The enemies of equality treat facts like one of grandma's farts - ignore it, pretend you didn't hear or smell it, and carry on regardless.
Posted by woulfe, Sunday, 18 July 2010 8:46:35 PM
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woulfe, you're not suggesting that Boazy's telling porkies again?

I'm shocked.
Posted by CJ Morgan, Sunday, 18 July 2010 9:58:50 PM
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