OK, KMB, let's extend your "slippery slope" to some other areas.

- churches receive tax concessions, so why not give money to suicide bombers?

- Australians can drive cars on the road, so who can argue against the right to drive a tank?

- we're allowed to eat baby sheep, why not baby humans?

When you work out why you find those arguments ridiculous, you'll know why everyone else finds yours ridiculous.

Dear KMB,

Jesus loves you.
(everyone else thinks you're an asshole).

keith: << So my position is that activists are not just demanding equality by demanding that the traditional marriage be applicable but that they are in fact attempting to re-define marriage into a much narrowerly defined institution. >>

No keith, you've got it arse-up (so to speak). Rodney Croome is arguing that the legal definition of marriage should be broadened to include gays. Sparkyq seems to want the Christian definition to be broadened to include gays. You're arguing for the retention in law of a particularly narrow view of the Christian form of marriage.

You're not stupid, so you're either being obtuse or disingenuous.

Incidentally, 'marriage' wasn't invented by Christians.

Foxy

Best laugh I've had all day and its only 9.00 AM!

CJ, you stole my thunder: Christians did not invent marriage nor do they hold any patent over it - therefore Keith and KMB get over it and find something worthwhile to do instead of imagining what consenting adults do to each other in private.

Foxy. You're sounding more like Col every day. Keep up the good work!

Phanto;

'There are a great many people who are married who are definitely not ‘couples’ and there are a great many people who are not married or do not have their relationship ‘sanctioned’ in anyway who definitely are couples.'

Exactly.

I'm all for this gay marriage as it would allow the guvment to let us poor defactos stay defactos. Why is it so hard? Hetero or same sex marriage can get married if they want in the eyes of government, or stay defacto if they want (keeping their future finances independent if they're childless) , and the churches can allow or not allow SS marriage ( I don't really care)

Dear Houellebecq,

Thanks.

But I can't really take all the credit -
I got it off a bumper-sticker - it made
me laugh as well, and I thought it appropriate
to use here to make light of KMB's "religious
stance," on things and his attempt
at distorting what I had posted previously.

Glad to see that you're keeping tabs though!