Discrimination, in a broad sense, is a necessary part of society and it exists in various forms and it always will. In fact, a functioning society would be impossible without it.

I'll be an honest discriminator over a liar without integrity any day of the week

R0bert,
You have said nothing for your position just used emotional blackmail "The ridiculous arguments people use are just appalling"

"The pathetic excuses you use to try and disguise a desire to discriminate against those who don't fit your idea of what should be is sickening".

Robert homosexuality and marriage are physical acts end of story.

It is a sad day when people get called bigots and homophobes for arguing the obvious. A man is a man and a woman is a woman and they complement each other like a nut and a bolt like a table and chairs. If you want to build a bridge with just nuts people would rightly declare you mad. The bridge would just fall apart. A bridge needs nuts and bolts just like a society needs marriage between a man and a woman. Marriage between a man and a woman is the fundamental building block of society. Families are the building block of the nation. Healthy families - healthy nation. Bob Katter is right. Why are we having this debate? It is laughable. As a great man once said. "A horse is a horse of course of course and no amount of social engineering can make a horse a camel" as much as the Greens would like it to be. Next they will all be calling those who disagree with homosexual marriage flat earthers or deniers and burning us at the stake.

Philo, if you care to look the first of those quotes is a quote from Trav in the previous post.

Warwick "It is a sad day when people get called bigots and homophobes for arguing the obvious" - what's a lot sadder is that some put so much effort into try to make others lives harder than they need to be.

Homosexual marriage won't take away from heterosexual marriage, it won't require any of us to become heterosexual, it will take away one more institutional sign of discrimination.

R0bert

Well said R0bert, these people don't bother to read and think about what you say. They're not interested in discussion, only in blowing their own (rather off key) trumpet. You might as well argue with a brick.

This more and more corrosive 'debate' about Marsh's article of so long ago has risen from the venom which appeared in many comments. Now, with the author's introduction of a fear that "burning at stake" may ensue, we have risen to the rare heights of Cloud-cuckoo-land.