What I find particularly amazing is that when one group is advocating for their rights, they seem quite happy to stomp on the rights of others.

While I personally believe that there are no significant differences for the children with same sex parenting I keep coming across articles about the beneficial role of fathers. I have also read the study done on same sex vs. heterosexual parenting, and while agreeing in the main did notice that the determination was based on a narrow set of criteria, which for the break away group of doctors might have excluded values that they considered important, and so their view is valid to them.

All in all considering the variety of families from single parents, divorced parents, multiple marriage parents, a stable relationship is the most important.

Finally, everything above is completely irrelevant when considering that children seldom get to choose their parents, and no one has the power to change them anyway.

Jimmy Jones,
1. What do you view marriage as?
2. What actual difference will it make to homosexuals?
There is no children (family) formed from the relationship!

Homosexuality is a degreation of the design and purpose of sex. As a flower produces seed that is fertilised to produce another in its likness for the next season, until then it has not reached its potential. The relationship of homosexuals is merely sentimental pleasure and not the reality of life which is marriage.

Marriage has always been a contract between a man and a woman, originally drawn up between families to protect the woman and the children. That is why the parents give concent for the woman only at a wedding. "Who giveth this woman to be wedded to this man?" There is no concent for the man!

There has never been changes in the meaning of the word marriage as you claim - cite social cases to support your claim!

Marriage does not belong to the religious right as claimed it is the protection of the social institution of family. Family is a biological term meaning the group of the same genetic source.

Kipp,
Tax has nothing to do with the act of marriage, Homosexuals will pay the same taxes and get the same handouts no matter if the cohabit or not. It will not change one iota!

Dan Dare, Your use of a people race group it totally irrelavent here as they do not reflect the case for individual sexual unions. That refers to race and not one's individual sexuality.

The claim of equal rights is a smoke screen as it is not an issue as all individuals are equal under our laws. Homosexuals are not suitable participants in some areas of life any less than drunk drivers as Driving instructors or peadophiles as teachers. They have a lifestyle not productive in some quarters of society. As in the case of having children or husband wife or sex counselling. They are not equal in experience. Otherwise they they are pomiscuous and immoral.

You really are a bigoted slow learner *Josephus* and your irrational prattle never ceases to amaze.

What you refuse to accept and understand is that your views are based on your particular beliefs. I support you behaving a right to have a belief, but unless you want trouble, which in my view no doubt you deserve, do not seek to impose your beliefs on others or to discriminate and denigrate their rights.

Why don't you tell us exactly what belief system you subscribe to?

As for your comments on all Australians having equal rights, quite clearly you are absolutely clueless.