Are you REALLY connecting bigoted opposition to homosexual marriage with opposition to the bloodthirsty theological tyrannies in the Middle East? Your 'brave' Senators -- who is sending planes off to bomb them, exactly? Who is threatening their friends and families with death? Who is despatching armed troops with tanks and machine guns to take them out?

Reality just called; they said they hadn't heard from you in a long while.

This is almost an unbelievable comparison.

" In short, such a government policy allows doctors and relatives 'to get rid of old people' as Joe de Bruyn said this week. Euthanasia has been exploited wherever it has been introduced in the world and many healthy people have died as a result. Where do you draw the line?"

You lost me at this point and with the same sex marriage argument.

Distorting the humanitarian goals behind Euthanasia as a conspiracy to "kill off old people" and your support of the discrimination and bigotry inherent in the gay marriage debate diminishies and insults those brave souls you wrote about so gallantly earlier in the piece.

The only truth you have exposed is that people have the right to push and promote bigotry and discrimination. It is those brave souls who go against the prevailing custom to fight for human rights who deserve our admiration. Given Euthanasia and same sex marriage are not legalised, it is natural to conclude that those standing up to the PC approach are not the Conservative Right Wing religious factions.

Fighting against discrimination or the right for people to die with dignity and without pain has nothing to do with political correctness.

But there are really none so blind as those who cannot see.

'Labor Senators John Hogg, Don Farrell and Steve Hutchins deserve a gold medal.'Could not agree more. Refreshing to see at least some in the Labour party keeing their word. The PM has broken hers so many times already I doubt whether her own party trusts her. Hopefully ex PM Rudd will resign over current fight with his leader. No doubt she will back down to him in order to cling to power. How deceit is Bob Brown?

I suspect that Mr Marsh may have finally lost the last vestige of a sense of perspective.

To compare the bravery displayed by Adel Idris with the value-free positions taken by a couple of Labour Party chancers is, frankly, obscene.

Then we have his own trumpet blown at us:

"Woe to anyone who stands against this Gaddafi-like delusion. I personally know the cost of disagreeing with the new religion of homosexuality..."

We are supposed to believe that Mr Marsh, far from being the sole architect of his woes, is some kind of martyr for the truth. When in fact he was ousted from a position of community trust by publishing slurs against a section of that community.

What on earth did he expect? Praise?

On this showing, one can only assume that he did.

The remaining comparisons in the article are equally weird. Euthanasia has apparently "been exploited wherever it has been introduced in the world and many healthy people have died as a result" And the evidence for that is... what, exactly?

And in support of his assertion that "If you think that the Family Law Act is bad for children, wait until you see the effect of the legalisation of homosexual marriage", he calls upon the support of that well-known human being, Bill Muehlenberg. The man who argues that legalizing homosexual marriage will lead to “potential for the sexual union of human beings and aliens”.

With all the over-dramatic language, along with all the posturing and flouncing, one has to wonder if perhaps Mr Marsh doth protest, slightly too much.

Warwick Marsh is the bravest man of all, daring to liken a stance on gay marriage the with life-threatening stance of the Libyan rebels.

Warwick with respect, the ALP has seen members leave in droves, due to the interference within the party of the extreme rightwing catholic members.
Your idols tried to take away the human rights and social justice being of the ALP, also the voices of grassroot members.
Unless the ALP goes back to basics of why it came into being, the ALP will disappear like the Democrats!