Dear Col,

Not only are you straight
but you're also narrow!

Cornflower: << It is important that people engage with one another on subjects like this >>

Indeed - and a good start would be for some to respond honestly to simple, reasonable questions that relate directly to the topic under debate, rather than trying to change the subject, obfuscating and attacking those with whom they disagree, or simply dislike.

Since I'm here,

Why shouldn't those gay couples who wish to marry be allowed to by the State?

Cornflower (sigh), no you don't see my point at all.

The subject is whether or not Australia should allow Gay marriage.
I say they should allow it, because marriage between two gay persons will hopefully bring great joy to two people in love.
It is already sanctioned as a defacto relationship, and that has not caused the sky to fall in, so why not that one step further?

If we feel like a debate on the pros and cons of allowing other sorts of marriage in Australia- such as polygamy- then we could start another thread.

Like CJ, I wonder why don't you just answer that simple question too Cornflower?
Or do you have a hidden agenda (religious?) as to why you are not prepared to give a straight (pardon the pun!) answer?

“It has been a few days since I visited this particular pursuit of the irrelevant and I see a few have made comment to my previous post

Houlle “how did the wedding go”…

Perfectly thanks H.. I will send you a pic through the usual channels .. not sure what we used for the toast, I just paid the tab but whatever it was it suited my palette and the new Mrs took 3 days to come back to earth…. I might modestly add, as a function of the wedding… not the honeymoon :- )

I get your point about standards. Some things are best reviewed and if no good reason is found to change them, be left as they were. Marriage is like that and the “Gay Union” agenda is not a valid reason to let every deviant and twisted mind front up for a marriage union.

Pontificator “See you have told us something about you, you're a homophobe. Who would have guessed!”

Call me what you want, your view and name calling is stupid anyway.

Homosexuality is “abnormal” and I do tolerate the “abnormal”.

However, that does not entitle the “abnormal” to be given the exact same treatment as if they were “normal”

any more than those abnormal folk who seek wedded bliss with animals (or their cars) or NAMBLA, deserve to be awarded “equal opportunity to marry”, the same as “normal" heterosexuals.

This was a bumper sticker seen on
a car in Los Angeles:

"All bigots will be re-incarnated
as gay, homeless, people of colour!"

Bumper sticker on a car in Australia:

Save the Marriage Act:
If It Isn't Broken, Don't Fix It!