quite strange that the God who invented marriage that the'gay' lobby hate and despise want now to adopt His covenant.

All very interesting and all very irrelevant. In Australian society marriage has always been the exclusive and life-long union of one man and one woman. Any gay person who wants to marry can. Any gay person who wants to not marry but form an exclusive and lifelong union with a person of the same sex can. But that is not called marriage. If we want to reach back into the history of other societies, we can call that union embrotherment and add ensisterment if we like. None of this has the slightest thing to do with religion or with discrimination or with equality. It is about words and their meanings. There are all sorts of relationships. One sort is called marriage. Other sorts are not.

I have to give gays an 'A' for effort, as they just won't stop trying to get their relationships acknowledged as a marriage.

The marriage word is taken, get over it!

The argument has never been about equality, it's been about the gay lobby trying to prove a point. It's all or nothing (never an intelligent position to hold). Anyone who says otherwise is being disingenuous. I liken it to when I offer a child a chocolate biscuit but they refuse and insist only on a Tim Tam.

I have no issue with same sex unions, equal rights under law, etc. These are essential to protect people's rights in this day and age.

However, marriage is off the table - deal with it.

Marriage was a recognised state in Greek and Roman times, runner, long before your God got a look in. Since then it's been adopted by the Church as a way of gaining power and income, and more lately taken back by the secular arm. It can be whatever we want it to be; and if your God doesn't like it, well, he's big enough and ugly enough to do something about it himself, isn't he? Why does he keep sending the ignorant, hateful and ineffective to try and do his work for him?

Jon J

'and if your God doesn't like it, well, he's big enough and ugly enough to do something about it himself, isn't he?'

and you will be the first to scream that its not fair just like those contracting disease through sodomy.