A few more to add to the collection:-

1) "Gay marriage doesn't scare me
Hate crimes do."

2) "Better a gay marriage
than a sad marriage."

3) "I may be straight
but I'm not narrow."

4) "Keep your religion out of my bedroom."

5) "Love is like a Rubix Cube
there are countless numbers of wrong twists
and turns, but when you get it right,
it looks perfect no matter what way you
look at it."

6) "Gay or straight
Black or white
Marriage is a civil right."

7) "Ban gay bashing
Not gay marriage."

8) "Stop gay marriage
Because there's nothing
God hates more than
people who love each other."

9) "Can I vote on YOUR marriage?"

CONT'D...

Just a few words before I go for the
evening...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Is like saying - if you don't love -
shove it. Colin Powell described that as"
"... the slogan of the complacent,
the arrogant or the scared. It's simply
an excuse for inaction."

And if it isn't helping, it's most
likely hurting.

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

If one is a gay person who wants to marry their lover and partner, I have no doubt that the Marriage Act, if not broken, needs amendment.

From today's Crikey:

<< Federal Labor has run out of excuses. Since 2004, it has trotted out a series of arguments to oppose same-s-x marriage, and each one of them has subsequently tumbled away to reveal naked prejudice. Rudd has been mugged by reality, and the showdown will be this Saturday.
The Religious Right are gathering in Canberra this weekend and Rudd is the guest speaker. There is only one thing this audience want to hear from him. One thing only. They want him to announce that he will strike down the ACT’s recently amended Civil Partnerships Act.

The current Act offends the Old Testament Taliban because it "mimics marriage", in that it provides for a state-sanctioned ceremony as part of the registration process. That’s right, the pressing concern at this week’s gathering of reactionary Catholics, Fundamentalists and Pentecostal Christians isn’t world poverty, terrorism, global warming, social housing or alcohol abuse among teens, it’s the fact that two people in love want to make a shared commitment to one another in front of friends and family.

Sadly, Rudd will pander directly to this prejudice and use the conference to announce that, yes, he will quash this legislation in the ACT for the third time. Thunderous applause from the room will follow and then everyone can have a cup of tea and a Milk Arrowroot. Moral decline averted.

But there won’t be any applause from the majority of Australians who not only support civil unions, but gay marriage itself. If the most recent Galaxy poll on this topic is to be believed, up to 60% of voters support full marriage rights for same-s-x couples, let alone the "marriage lite" option of partnership registration. >>

The rest of the article is to be found here: http://tiny.cc/tfNdO .

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It's very pertinent to this discussion, but I doubt that our resident homophobes will bother to read it.

Speaking of whom, you made that "bumper sticker" up, didn't you Cornflower?

While I'm here, why shouldn't gay couples who wish to marry be allowed to by the State?

Who believes bumper stickers any way as credible edicts - they are opinion couched in emotive words.

Laws of a democratic nation do not serve exclusive groups within a community. Once a precedent is set in law all can appeal to that law for equal recinition. That includes multiple relationships, including the guy with 23 live in sex partners and 46 children all dependent on State welfare.

On health: What section of our community has the highest incidence of deaths caused by AIDS?

Cornflour I have to congratulate you for your clear thinking and valid arguments against the sectional intrests of a few. A good law has a universal philosophy behind it rather than a section advantage for a few. The advocates for same sex intercourse argue there are no creational principals in sexuality and anything is OK if we OK it by law.