"Your opinion changes nothing.” Great comeback Jason. I used that as a teenager for a few years, but it grew old. Later, I discovered that history matters.

@jason84
What ban on interracial marriage?
Oh were these the laws against miscgenation in the U.S.A which the northern states did NOT repeal after the civil war?
Just like they DIDN'T allow escaped slaves to stay in their jurisdiction for more than 30 days, they moved them on to Canada.
You've been raised on lies my friend and you are a typical "Gay" thug, how dare you link non acceptance of your silly, uninformed views and bogus "Rights" to "Racism".
This proves my point, the harder you push, the angrier and more oppressive you become the bigger the potential backlash.
Most enlightened Australians, myself included view homosexuals as harmless eccentrics and have a live and let live attitude toward eccentricity and "bohemian" lifestyles, what we don't like is bullying, hectoring Trotskyites and other Left Wing Hate Groups waving their fists and threatening people.
Jason Akermanis made an observation about homosexuals then had people coming to his house in the middle of the night while he, his wife and kids slept and vandalising his property.
Stephanie Rice gets hauled before a mini Nuremberg Tribunal for public humiliation and is bullied to tears by thugs like you.
Homosexual activists and your generation of "Gays" generally are obnoxious, intolerant and violent and yet you wonder why the rest of us object to your silly campaign for your non existent "Right" to marry.

@ Jay Of Melbourne

Can't you read?, Your opinion means nothing to me.

Jay Of Melbourne:

Yep; that sums it up! BUT

How do we pick a winner for the big “one” this weekend at the MCG?

@ Diver Dan.
I Ching?
Divination of Chicken gizzards?
Spin the bottle?
I prefer the "ask the old drunk guy on the tram" method.
The Greek bloke who sells me my morning coffee is backing the Saints,If anyone would know it'd be him, I mean, he owns a shop!he must know something about football.
Just like "Gays", by virtue of being harmless eccentrics at the margins of society automatically know what's best for everyone on the planet and that "rights" should be created for a tiny minority where none exist for the majority.
See I don't have or even need the "right" to be married to my wife, we are together for the purpose of procreation, that's what marriage is really for as understood by 99.9% of humans, babies, not "rights" or "equality" or "love".

What is most interesting in this debate is that it is a debate at all - why do so many people object, and sometimes so viciously, to gay people having the right to marry?

Why is it an issue at all? If you aren't gay, why is it anything to do with you? If you are gay and don't like marriage for whatever reason, then don't do it. Nobody's going to make you.

Why are so many people so ready to stick their noses into other people's sexual and emotional lives, and tell them what they can and can't do in those lives?

All you anti gay marriage people, get a life. This issue should not be occupying your valuable time. Haven't you got things that really affect your lives to worry about?

What difference does it make to you if the Marriage Act is amended to include some gay and lesbian couples who'd like to make that commitment?

Really. What a bunch of control freaks you all are.