What a wonderful thing is freedom of speech.
Its the foundation and the backbone of modern newspapers but are there times when that freedom goes against the better needs of society?
The story on the Daily Telegraph website is entitled "Support for gay school formals".
Its about the head of the Anglican church backing gay and lesbians students taking same sex partners to school formals (Archbishop Aspinalls supportive words too ungodly to really comment on). Yet when we go to the Your Say columns of the Daily Telegraph and its sister publication the Courier Mail (over 900 commnets on this latter Your Say) we generally see a huge number of gay comments uplifting the gay lifestyle as worthy of living.
Its this allowance in free speech that I object to.
I would really like to see newspaper editors edit so as not to allow the gay lobby such increasing power.
Its not going to help the next generation of young boys coming into the world today to become involved in the misery and the health problems of the homosexual life because we allowed that lifestyles spread...allowed it the publicity and the power it wants.
If editors want to be really responsible, then I have to say "please stop the increasing gay free speech in your Your Say columns".
Edit for the good of society.
If we love the children of tomorrow we will not open a door for the gay communities to have any more power.
We have to think about the children of tomorrow and care for them and protect them... before they are even here.

Hi Gibo

You are spot on when you say 'If we love the children of tomorrow'. The problem with sexual immorality (including homosexuality) is that participants only think of themselves. That is why so many defend pornography denying the most obvious outcomes. The obvious outcomes are that many don't give a stuff about their children. If they did then they would confine sex to marriage instead of being caught up in sin and bondage. It is well documented and known that children are best served by having a loving committed mum and dad. Of course many who love to destroy families will quote numerous studies that pervert the obvious truth. It is no wonder the Anglican church is becoming more irrelevant when they choose to be men pleasers rather than think of the good of society as the Scriptures teach.

Gibo: << What a wonderful thing is freedom of speech >>

I agree. Without it I probably wouldn't get to read all the homophobic and other hateful ideas that are apparently harboured by certifiable frootloops like Gibo and runner.

Gibo wants to restrict the freedom of speech of those who say things he doesn't like, but I'm sure he'd sqwawk loudly if, say, the editors of OLO decided to improve the intellectual quality of debates in this forum by censoring the obvious nutters who love to regale us regularly with their loopy ideas.

There are many hateful and idiotic ideas expressed in readers' comments sections of newspaper websites (and indeed in online forums such as OLO) but it's important that their expression is as unrestricted as legally possible, so that the rest of us are aware of the extent and range of such sentiments in the community.

Yeh Runner.
It is a true heart-felt matter of love to protect the next generation from the expansion of the gay movement.
Theres no doubt that many in the homosexual community are "quiet manslaughterers".
Condoms are increasingly being thrown away so they can do the full flesh bit.
Thus the virus spreads and into the heterosexual community (because a percentage of gays movers are bisexual) and people catch the virus and die.
We really ought to put the tidal wave of homosexuality into a full court/legal position and work outwards from there.
If there are gays spreading terminal disease why are they not guilty of an offence?
I dont hate the gays by-the-way, I just want to see their growth stopped as at least one way of improving social and moral health.
Many parents are as you say at fault in this. Me too was part of the permissive generation of the 60's. We openned doors to immorality without thinking too much about who would be harmed down the line. Though I did teach my son well after I got saved. I have in recent years found new hope in Jesus (Im proud to say HE's my Lord and Saviour today and has been for 25 years) and much wisdom regarding repenting of my old ways. HE sure sets us free!
CJMorgan.
Should we open doors for the neo-nazis to spread? Should we encourage the Islamic radicals to store up guns? No.
We protect what we have built... and control gay free speech lest the new children of tomorrow get trapped in a degenerate lifestyle. Many will die if we dont.

"Theres no doubt that many in the homosexual community are "quiet manslaughterers". (Quote: Giborish)

You know Gibber, you really ought to be a wee tad cautious about what you say....

"Condoms are increasingly being thrown away so they can do the full flesh bit." (Quote: Giborish)

......the full flesh bit......?? Can't you see that this kind of terminology reflects more on your sex-obsessed mindset, than to those to whom you refer?

You are one scary little fellow.

What a wonderful thing is freedom of speech.
Its the foundation and the backbone of modern newspapers but are there times when that freedom goes against the better needs of society?
The story on the Daily Telegraph website is entitled "Support for gay school formals".
Its about the head of the Anglican church backing gay and lesbians students taking same sex partners to school formals (Archbishop Aspinalls supportive words too ungodly to really comment on).
Yet when we go to the Your Say columns of the Daily Telegraph and its sister publication the Courier Mail (over 900 commnets on this latter Your Say) we generally see a huge number of paranoid conservative nutcase comments promoting a bigoted christian lifestyle as worthy of living.
Its this allowance in free speech that I object to.
I would really like to see newspaper editors edit so as not to allow the fundamentalist conservative Christian lobby such increasing power.
Its not going to help the next generation of young bpeople coming into the world today to become involved in the misery and bigotry problems of the conservative life because we allowed that hatred to spread...allowed it the publicity and the power it wants.
If editors want to be really responsible, then I have to say "please stop the increasing fundamentalist christian free speech in your Your Say columns".
Edit for the good of society.
If we love the children of tomorrow we will not open a door for the conservative christians to have any more power.
We have to think about the children of tomorrow and care for them and protect them... before they are even here.

- Gibo

I think your ideas are cruel, divisive and incite hatred. But I let them stand, because of the importance of free speech.

People will never agree on everything. That's why we have this compromise of free speech. To rail against that is stupid, because frankly, I think more Australians would like to silence your cruel commentary than vice versa.