It is obvious when one cannot debate the issue intelligently it is easy to abuse the character of the writer.

Philo, that would be true if the issues were intelligent.

Unfortunately persistent incoherent paranoia around closet communism does not qualify.

" .. the coming together of two different substances to produce an independent and self sufficient being."
Posted by Philo, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 5:05:18 PM

Well, a conceptus and its next stage, the foetus, are Not ever independent and self-sufficient, Philo. They are dependent.

Amicus, 9:47:33am & Paw
Paw was upset when, after he wrote "these people", he wrote "how dare they force down our throats their abhorrent way of life."

The irony was the forcing was done 30 years ago with the start of the Sydney Mardi Gras, and now "it" is all passe. As I said "You choose to emphasise it as that and [You] choose to get upset."

"Much like the Survey report that 62% of Australians want Gay Marriage."

You mean the objective, designed Galaxy Poll = http://citynews.com.au/2011/news/christians-back-gay-marriage/

Perhaps it is worth considering a Christian view that ""There are some who have been eunuchs from birth — made that way by God."" -

............ http://www.wouldjesusdiscriminate.org/biblical_evidence/born_gay.html
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The assertion that fatherlessness had a role in the UK riots is a bare, unsubstantiated one.
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Warick Marsh has again had the courage to write something not deemed politically correct in our feminist society.

For the doubters, name an area of the world that has a high rate of children born outside of marriage, that does not have complete social dysfunction.

"For the doubters, name an area of the world that has a high rate of children born outside of marriage, that does not have complete social dysfunction."

Er.. Sweden? Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France? Canada? Australia?

Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Iran... oh, sorry. Those are countries in which almost 100% of children are born in wedlock, that also have complete social dysfunction. In Britain the death of a protestor at the hands of police is a rare tragedy: in theocracies like these it happens daily in tens and hundreds.

See if you can come up with a harder question next time.