Lori,

That's not much of an attack on Professor Singer, an article from Murdochs right wing media and all they can come up is Barnaby Joyce calling it "madness", I would expect no less from Joyce a radical right winger. Added to Joyce's criticism is the mumblings of Roslyn Phillips, of Family Voice Australia, "really, really out there". Who is Family Voice Australia, a right wing christian pressure group supported by conservative clergy. A group representing 0.5% of Australians who are ready willing and able to step up and tell the other 99.5% what they should do and think, based on religious fundamentalism.

Lori, Do you support the views of the likes of Rabbi Shimon Cowen

Who says "He’s sorry for the little gay boys and girls who are bashed on a daily basis at school, enduring routine taunts of “poof” and “dyke”. However he knows that it’s more important that little Jewish boys and girls are protected."

A divisive voice in society, would you agree?

Do you want a society which supports Paraphilia (or the broader term, Anythingamy) including people having sex with animals?

Or do you want a clean living society which is comparatively low on medical, social and financial costs, in which kids have a mum and a dad?

I think Poirot is good at knowing when he has been well and truly outclassed.

Outclassed by whom?

Lorikeet, stop generalizing and mislabeling everything. And even though this is still off-topic, you need to be set straight.

1. Since when has living in a ‘clean’ society (whatever that means) ever equated to low medical, social and financial costs? Over regulation by cottonwool-wrapping governments is one reason people are struggling so much today. And you want more?
2. So in your opinion, get rid of the amoral, the unwashed, the hard-done-by, the minorities and let’s all go back to the 50s? No thanks. And who are all these people you're targeting? One of my close relatives is gay. I guess they’d be on your hit list.
3. I’m a single parent, doing a fantastic job of raising 2 boys. No father. He buggered off long ago. And I am hugely offended by your suggestion that I need a male partner to make my life and theirs ‘more fulfilled’. And, for the record, I have never accepted a single family or welfare payment in my life and don't intend to.
4. If you are a typical example of the Democratic Labour Party, then I suggest you hold some kind of referendum (at your own expense, please) and change the name. There is absolutely nothing democratic about your views and heaven help us should you and yours or similar ever rise to power.

On a more general note, have you yet started to read any of Peter Singer’s work, like I suggested? Just might open your eyes a little.

scribbler,

Perhaps the Democratic Labor Party is named so in the manner of the [former] German Democratic Republic...ie, it's the democracy you have have when you don't have a democracy.

Lori,
You say:
"Or do you want a clean living society which is comparatively low on medical, social and financial costs, in which kids have a mum and a dad?"
I to am old enough to remember 'The Nelsons' with Ozzie and Harriet and those wonderful sons of theirs, Davey and Ricky. They all lived happily in their 1950's middle class house, in their middle class street, and all this in their middle class world, where the sun shone daily and the only decision one ever had to make was "what night should we go bowling."
The sickos of our society are those that spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about what others are up to in their bedrooms, be they a man and a woman, a man ans a man or a woman and a woman or any other combo you can think of. None of that is of interest to me, and I certainly don't want to legislate a series of bedroom laws.
Why is a person like the Pope in Rome so interested in sex when supposedly he's not getting any.
Lori, are you still think up a response about Rabbi Cowen?

As for "including people having sex with animals?" Is this DLP policy? or do you just sit around at branch meeting and talk about it for 3 hours. Lori, do you think any right minded person agrees with that nonsense. but I must say, I feel sorry for the poor bloke who drew the spiny ant eater. LOL.