RitaJ 50% of opposite sex marriages end in divorce, can you please comment on why this is?
Life evolves and Gays (human beings like yourself)in years gone by where considered to be criminals Why? Because of the ignorance of those days.
Times have changed, social thinking has changed, and respect for others have changed for the better. RitaJ why be unhappy about something that will not take anything away from you.

And let's not forget 60% of Australian marriages are now performed by marriage celebrants with no religious element.

I often think when opponents of marriage equality complain that same sex marriage will destroy heterosexual marriages then those marriages can't have very strong foundations.

If you're honest in your thinking, marriage equality won something in New York state (and elsewhere where it's now legal), but the opponents of it lost nothing.

I know what I said about wrapping up...but.
Bullet points;

-"Flexible attitdues" toward the definition of marriage are a conceit of a very tiny minority of a very tiny minority.
If "Westerners" are 10% of the world's population and homosexuals are a minority of 10% within then I don't wonder that they need draconian "hate speech" laws to protect their revolution as it totters along.

-Are we seriously quoting the U.N as a moral authority? ...please, spare me.
I quote the convention on genocide often but we all know there's not a damn thing that they'd do to prevent genocide and that they'll only act on crimes against humanity if it serves the Liberal War effort.

-Will someone address the issue of the "Gay" revolutionary manifesto?
Can you still stand there and lie to yourselves about it's intent, about the sexual "liberation" of children, about the intent to destroy the heterosexual family and any other "impediments" to the emancipation, by force of all people from sexual "oppression".

-Lexi, Suze, Ammonite, are any of you even homosexual or are you "Gays", perhaps you're straight dilettantes or you are using the "Gay" revolutionary movement to further your own agendas or career prospects?
Oh we never talk about that do we? The fact that there's good money to be made from supporting the revolution, that it's so much easier to claw your way to the top of whatever ladder you're on by threatening, undermining or blackmailing people who stand in your way if you're one of the righteous in crowd.
See the people who have the guts to genuinely stand up to Gay Revolutionary thuggery actually stand for something, they stand for love,honour and they hold certain ideals above and beyond the materialist world of the "gays" and their allies.
You stand against the world as separatists, we stand in solidarity with that higher ideal held by %99.9 of humanity.

Saltpetre, I too don't really care whether you like my views on same sex marriage or not, but if you join an Online Opinion Forum and make your views publicly known, then surely you would expect other posters to comment on your' comments - whether negatively or not?

You still haven't answered mine and Lexi's question as to exactly WHAT the legalizing of gay marriage would do to the 'institution' of heterosexual marriage?
How on earth could it be anyone else's business?

Jay Of Melbourne <"Lexi, Suze, Ammonite, are any of you even homosexual or are you "Gays", perhaps you're straight dilettantes or you are using the "Gay" revolutionary movement to further your own agendas or career prospects? "

Jay, you can't be serious? To be Gay and Homosexual is the same thing! As it happens, I am not Gay, and nor will I financially benefit in any way from the legalization of Homosexual Marriage -- LOL!

There would be so few actual Gay marriages if they were legal anyway, that I can't imagine how anyone could financially benefit from that act - unless they are family I suppose.

Can't a person have a view about a subject, even if they are not directly involved in the subject matter?
You seem to have plenty to say on the subject of Gay Marriage...
are you Gay (homosexual), Jay?

"You stand against the world as separatists, we stand in solidarity with that higher ideal held by %99.9 of humanity"

Who is WE Jay?
If this law would only affect such a small minority of people, then why stand against it?
Is it because of a religious objection?

Dear Suze,

Well said - and you've asked some pertinent questions.
Actually, I'm happily married with two children as you know,
and I also would not financially benefit in any way by supporting
same-sex marriage. I'm at the top of my profession in a job I love.
Now that you mention it though - I'm also beginning to wonder about
Jay and why he's so against same-sex marriages. Perhaps he's
not secure in himself or suffers from self-loathing, or as you
suspect - it could be a religious phobia. Perhaps Jay's a priest?
Perhaps he's Cardinal Pell?

cont'd ...

My apologies to Cardinal Pell.

It was wrong of me to suggest him, even if he is against gays.