I think there is way too much hysteria about gay marriage, when the real issue is homosexuality itself , and the way some conservative members of our society don't want to recognize that being gay is not a choice and not illegal .

Bestiality, incest and polygamy are all illegal in Australia, and the first 2 practices will never be legalized by any sane government, for health reasons alone.

So why are some people imagining that gay marriage will be the start of marriage within these 2 groups then?
What a load of rubbish!

I can see that Polygamy could conceivably happen here in the future, as long as women were also allowed to marry multiple men too...

Susionline

'I think there is way too much hysteria about gay marriage, when the real issue is homosexuality itself , and the way some conservative members of our society don't want to recognize that being gay is not a choice and not illegal .'

Many are simply sick of the lifestyle being promoted. I have known woman and men to walk out of 30 year marriages to live that lifestyle. I would call that choice. No one twisted their arm. Next you will be saying that people committing adultery or fornication have not got a choice or worse still paedophille. Of course people have a choice.

Bestiality, incest and polygamy are all illegal in Australia, and the first 2 practices will never be legalized by any sane government, for health reasons alone.
Suseonline,
Is that so ? Homosexuality used to be considered a health risk & now look where it got to. Don't dismiss the aforementioned too easily. Anything is possible in a society rotten to the core.

What a strange psychological world we inhabit, where people like individual things things were so much better back then, and now "society is rotten to the core."

Men of means used to leave Britain and pop off to Africa and the Caribbean, where they'd buy plantations and "own" black and brown people. We used to send little children down mines and cripple others at looms or in factories. We used to procure children from orphanages and set them to work in the factories, flog them and starve them to within an inch of their lives...all this under the auspices of the morality of the church. But simultaneously, things like homosexuality were illegal, so society was pure.

...yeah right.

I'm curious as to where, when and which society was un-rotten… My guess is that it could not have involved humans (The test being to nominate such a society and then imagine being 'any' of the possible individuals in it, prior to claiming it as such).

Before dismissing Senator Bernardi's comments as ignorant or out of order… has there been any clarification?

Setting aside the issue that consent is unobtainable, was the senator okay with bestiality as long as it involved male and female genders? Or was his opposition to something that wasn't even in legislation before the chamber based on misunderstanding that same-sex attraction doesn't cross the species barrier.

In any event I can't foresee – and would disagree with – Australians decriminalising sex with anything that could be regarded as food.

Poirot,
you must be the one living in the past because you keep bringing it up all the time.