Dr Amanda Villas:

...Yes, and Amanda, I am sure that if a campaign was initiated which supported the felonious assumption that all in society should be forced to wear two left shoes, a gullible public would soon get on-side with that obvious stupidity too

Diver dan- are you suggesting that two thirds of Australians are just gullible and your vocal minority of people who continue to promote inequality and intolerance should be listened to? I don't know why your vocal minority should have the right to discriminate when a majority of people want what's right-equality for all, regards of sexual orientation.

Amanda, that figure of 60% you keep mentioning is purely wishful thinking.

Let's have a referendum on the gay issue and then we'll see what the Australian people really think.

I suspect it would be closer to 30% or less!

Dear DD,

Our conversation must shift away from the mass,
infantile finger-pointing that now pervades it.
Your tendency to think that your way is the
"right" way and that people who disagree with you
are bad or somehow inferior smacks of prejudice
and narrow-mindedness.

However, you are entitled to your views.
We are all guilty of some measure of bias (the
tendency, often unconscious, to interpret facts
according to our own values). We all view things from
a viewpoint of subjectivity. However, in a democracy -
the majority vote is usually the way issues are resolved.
Therefore as far as same-sex marriage is concerned in
this country of ours - it will be the majority who will
decide when it happens (not if it happens - as the
majority of people are afterall for it). And folks like
you will simply have to learn to live with it.

That's life.

Dear David G.,

Do the Maths. South Australia, Tassie - are all
for same-sex marriage. And that's just the beginning.
I think you'll find that the percentage of people
supporting same-sex marriage is much higher than
the 64% that's being quoted. And by all means lets
have a conscience vote in parliament/and - or a Referendum.
It would be interesting.

"Who exhibit no appreciation for the concessions already afforded their cause"
Diver Dan that is so magnanimous as well as patronising of you, towards members of the Australia community who contribute fully in all aspects of Australian life, even in the defence force.