Prime Minister David Cameron may have to see off his own 'moral collapse' in the ever escalating phone hacking scandal before he can attend to any others.

"It won't stop at homosexual marriage - look for polygam and marriage between adults and children to be legalised. There is no greater dream for a paedophile than to be able to legally acclaim a child as a lover"
Rebecca Hagelin said at the Christian Taliban rally in Canberra yesterday.
You people who call yourselves "Christians and Moralists", where are your minds to have these foul evil hatred thoughts. You bring children into your ant-gay argument, but do you think of the harm you are causing to young gay people, of course not, all you think of his expressing and trying to spread your evil bigotry.

May your God who ever she or he is have mercy on you!!

Follow the logic...

If same sex marriage is the slippery slope to the marriage of children, cats & dogs, cars & trucks.

Then what was the catalyst for same sex marriage? Those pesky heterosexuals set the example.

Solution

Ban marriage.

Or maybe some bigots should keep their vile little thoughts to themselves and live and let live.

Sorry Ammonite, your argument doesn't make any sense to me. Marriage (there is only one type) is not about setting examples for homosexuals to aspire to.

This topic has become surreal.

I agree with the premise that children ideally should have a father and mother. Although not married, my partner and I of 12 years have a very normal 7yo son and we are all very happy.

I do not believe marriage is essential to a healthy family. What is essential though is love, commitment, tolerance, patience and understanding. These are the qualities of nurturing a family not some bit of paper, ceremony, car sticker or pontification.

While I do not support SSM, I do not oppose it either. It's not an issue for me. Other peoples personal lives are none of my business and I will respect the umpires call whenever it comes in.

What I do disagree with is the open slather hypocrisy of so called christians and others with their associated bizarre and paranoid closet communist conspiracy theories.

In an earlier post I made the point about change happening at the top. One cannot whinge about the specks in other peoples eyes until they have removed the log out of their own eyes.

In other words if the morally decayed fatherless mobs see those in power indulging their own immorality they will respond to any pompous judgements with contempt. Many 'normal' kids with jobs from 'normal' families have also been arrested. How are they accounted for? A few bad apples? A standard deviation?

While not condoning the looting and destruction, if those who condescendingly make pronouncements about accountablity are themselves unaccountable it is all for nought.

Too many times in recent years have we seen our leaders and those in power proclaim "Do as we say, not as we do."

Moralising is meaningless at best but can be comtemptuously repugnant to those who's senses are assaulted by the stench of hypocrisy.

Neutral,
What you and your wife have is an actual marriage if your relationship to her is exclusive. It is just that you have not publicly declared and registered it in the register of marriage. I assume you have registered your son as you being the father?