plantagenet, "Turns out that in the 1980s AIDS was a tiny threat to heterosexuals but a major threat to male homosexuals.

The fact that media producers, directors and especially Actors were disproportionately of a particular leaning mean't Everyone had to Worry about a disease resulting from the lifestyle of said media producers, directors and especially Actors."

Agree. However you left out social sciences academics.

Social sciences 'research',
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174

The vast majority of people will continue to understand marriage to be between man and woman and that is no fallacy but fact.

Not according to the polls over the last ten years, Is Mise.

I have anxiety and depression for not being allowed to ride a bicycle (without a pot over my head, which is obviously not an option for me).

I do wish for "beyondblue" to take up my case!

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There are many people who experience anxiety and depression due to the burden of taxes.

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Now here comes a person who is anxious and depressed because the government would not recognise their qualification as an exorcist. To prove this recognition, they demand that "exorcist" be included in the list of professions one has to select from when filling their tax-return (why "Prostitute" is already on that list, occupation-code #451813, following "Beauty salon assistant", occupation-code 451812!).

However, "An exorcist", government claims, "is a religious concept and we have separation of state and church".

But isn't "marriage" a religious concept too?!

Marriage is a religious sacrament intended to boost an earthly (normally sexually or financially based) relationship and helps to elevate it by reminding the partners to include God in their relationship.

Why on earth would a secular government wish to be involved and define such religious concepts? Why on earth would secular and even anti-religious people want to adopt, register, expand and encourage religious sacraments?

Just as government already pigeon-holes people by defining their profession, it attempts to also pigeon-hole people by defining their relationships. We must resist such attempts and struggle to repeal such laws as the "Marriage Act", rather than to extend them!

I completely agree Yuyutsu. The government has no right to regulate our private relationships.

However as we can see from some of the commenters here, this acceptance of government intrusion is driven by those who want to force their beliefs on others.

"Not according to the polls over the last ten years, Is Mise."

Which polls were they?

Haven't seen any taken among the world's 1.57 billion Muslims, 1.2 billion Catholics and the 14 million Jews, and the majority of the 1 billion Hindus believe very strongly that marriage is between man and woman.
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