@Jardine K. Jardine

Asked and answered matey.

Stops blokes marrying an entire kindergarten.

Pete

Amusing to read these vitriolic postings, by those with their anti-social attitude towards gay people.
Carry on boys, as gay people live every day with bashings, stigma and denial of right of their being. So sorry boys, the world has changed and if you cannot keep up, then you will be left behind in your life of selfishness and indifference to your fellow Australians.

Planty Pete

the Romans took over the Catholic Church very early on. Augustus Caesar decreed the one faith.
Constantine held the council of Nicea and determined what was to be included in the bible, both old and new testament.

I think most people would actually reject most of the religious crap in favour of a return to Christs teachings such as the cornerstone the Sermon on the Mount.

catholic history is fascinating. it has had, and still has, great good but also great evil.

marriage as we know it is not a great good.

cheers

What is the problem with taking the issue out of the hands of politicians. Hold a plebiscite and be done with it.

plantagenet

Is that the best you can do?

imajulianutter, "marriage as we know it is not a great good"

For many, many years homosexuals would have agreed with you on that and likely raised a glass to celebrate their own 'outlaw' existence away from the State interference and regulation affecting heterosexual couple relationships and especially their break-ups. Heterosexual marriage was always the butt of many jokes and it still is. No need to puzzle why.

It is remarkable that gays have been led into State regulation and marriage by feminists who hate men and marriage anyhow, and by 'Progressives' who are also hitching a ride on the Gay bandwagon.

It is easy to see how the greed of educated middle class gays and lesbians who swing from the guvvy teat as politicians, bureaucrats and academics would favour gay marriage. There is spousal travel, benefits for employer subsidised housing and a way to make more out of superannuation with no extra contributions. However, from the experience of the Netherlands, where gay marriage has been in for years the up-take of marriage is very low and since the initial spree, a lot have divorced, proving that gay marriage is not wanted by 99% of gays.

So, exactly who benefits and how? Is the penalty of State regulation, control and monitoring of personal relationships really worth it for the personal financial gains for the privileged few who are rolling in clover anyhow? It is a heck of a lot of needless interference and pain for the gain of the very few with assets and a good income who are already advantaged in life and would never be affected by claimed 'discrimination' anyhow. Honestly, what ordinary person needs courts, lawyers and bureaucrats telling them how to run their lives, or else?

However, Common Law Marriage, ie de facto classification and regulation, is already a fact, done by back-door change and consulted with no-one (the usual modus operandi of the 'Progressives' in Labor).