Middle-Eastern and other warring patriarchal tribes (Iran included) abhor homosexuality because they want as many more males as possible to be born and join their side of the fight.

Homosexuality is one useful tool to curb overpopulation and it seems to be a natural and appropriate ecological response once the density of a species increases beyond a point.

Muslims abhor homosexuals because of their (Muslims's) religious beliefs. Homosexuals could be used fighting as well as normal males - and they are in some societies, including our own.

Strict Christians also abhor the behaviour of homosexuals. The not so strict pick and choose what suits them from the Bible, hence the renegades in the clergy who are homosexuals themselves.

My own dislike of the unnatural business that anyone is attracted to and/or has a physical relationship with someone of the same sex is not religious, just common sense. I know a handful of them: on first names with two; but the relationship is such that they do not need to know what I think of their behaviour, which has no effect on me personally.

I intend them no harm, but as far as Wong, a Senator in my state goes, I would never vote for her because, yes she is a lesbian, which reason is number one, but she is also a gormless idiot. Were I in whatever state or electorate the Liberal homosexual is, I wouldn't vote for him either.

There is a joke (I hope it's a joke) going around that Trump wound up the Israel-Iran conflict so that he could avoid meeting Albanese.

Trump met only G7 partners and left early to do what he swore to do - protect America.

The idea that he was dodging the political toddler Albanese aside, Trump does have more important things to do. Not hobnobbing with a pig-headed contrarian who probably defied his mother when she wanted him to eat his vegetables.

The other joke? Albo was disappointed that he couldn't tell Trump how was raised in social housing by a single mother.

When a “leader” has acted in such a way to bring that sort of derision onto himself, he really is in the wrong job.

It gets worse. Albanese didn't find out that there was no Trump chat for him until the media did. And he was delegated to a dinner that Trump wasn't at.

Albanese had a chat with Kevin Rudd and Greg Norman instead.

One commentator wonders if Wong’s sanctioning of Israel cabinet ministers had anything to do with Albanese's humiliation. “Very few things are unintentional when it comes to American diplomacy, and it appears Albanese was embarrassed deliberately”.

There have been some very “nassty” things said about Trump by Albanese, Rudd, and Turnbull at different times. And how about the garbage on Hamas coming from Labor, Wong in particular.

And, certain people should have taken Trump's ‘don't pay your bill and we won't defend you’. statement more seriously.

Persians, nominal Muslims (forced) or not, have been seen by Netanyahu as worth talking to for years in an attempt to transcend the Islamic Republic.

This current strike is part of his policy, as is his wish to avoid civilian casualties, and bring about an uprising caused by elite splits and popular rage. He is looking for Iranian nationalism that goes back a lot further than Islam.

Dear Ttbn,

«Muslims abhor homosexuals because of their (Muslims's) religious beliefs.»

There is nothing religious about their beliefs since Islam is not a true religion,
but suppose even that these beliefs are based on the Quran,
then why did the authors of the Quran (no, it was not Gabriel, hope you agree...) wrote against homosexuality?
Because they were tribalist fighters and needed more fighters to fill their ranks.
Even while a homosexual could also be a fighter, they still get old and without offspring with fighter-genes, no new fighters are born.

«My own dislike of the unnatural business...»

Your likes and dislikes are legitimate to have, especially when they give you no pain: they are your personal matter, yet homosexuality is not unnatural: it occurs in most mammals and in most adolescents at one stage or another. One theory considers its continuation into adulthood as a case of developmental arrest; while another study indicates an overall genetic advantage when a certain small percentage of a population remains homosexual, because that improves the care (thus survival rates) of nephews and nieces.