Suseonline, Have you ever noticed that for some of our kind, loving, forgiving, Christians as soon as you don't agree with them they want to pluck your eyes out, cut out your tongue, and burn you in hell for eternity. And that's all from instructions they received from their benevolent and merciful god. I would hate to catch em' and their god of compassion on a bad day, I would hate to think of the consequences. I'm sure its suppose to scare you into submission, well fellas it don't wash with me! I'll continue to bag the pompous hypocrites at every opportunity. LOL

Oh god, don't some people talk so much garbage.

The reason for all this pretend high minded rubbish is nothing to do with respect, love or honor. It is all about money.

Particularly for bureaucrats, teachers, our ABC types etc., it is to take advantage of the Oz taxpayer.

If the homosexuals are married they get to hold on to their "partners" super when they die.

Must be a large cluster in the media, or this would have beeen recognized as the true reason for years.

Just found this on OLO, in the thread 'same sex marriage.'

http://www.christianmingle.com/landing/v4splash-aus?prm=91814&lgid=FB-male-03-03_v5|forum.onlineopinion.com.au

There is man seeking woman and woman seeking man, but no man seeking man or woman seeking woman Heaven forbid there not even a space for priest seeking boy, what on earth are the catholic clergy going to do, read the bible, heaven forbid.

The sheer stupidity or dishonesty of discussion of SS marriage is all there is to it.

It's simply untrue to claim that SS marriage is "illegal". It's not illegal. Gay couples have exactly the same rights as everyone else to exchange solemn promises to be faithful and look after each other etc. They have more right than married couples to arrange their property relations as they want. And they have more rights than polyamorous people to marry. If you want to talk about marriage being illega, bigamy and polygamy really are illegal - gay marriage is not, and it is only dishonesty or sheer ignorance to claim it is.

It is also simply untrue that marriage is constituted by an act of government. Not even the government claims, or has ever claimed that.

What gays can't do is *register* their relationships with the government.

What none of these lying or stupid people has ever explained is why government should be registering sexual relationships in the first place; and if they should, why every kind of sexual relationship shouldn't have "marriage equality".

......What gays can't do is *register* their relationships with the government.

Oh yes they can JK, they simply need to find a desciptive word other than marriage.

Problem solved, game set and match, but they just can't accept the fact that they are not the same, and for anyone to suggest their union is the same as that of a man and woman is simply wrong.

....What none of these lying or stupid people has ever explained is why government should be registering sexual relationships in the first place; and if they should, why every kind of sexual relationship shouldn't have "marriage equality".

My thought is that they registered these marriages so as to place stability into the child's life, something that would be impossible in a SS marriage.

Could you imagine being a kid growing up with a dad and dad, or a mum and mum.

While I'm not religious, one thought I do have is that god created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

I wish they would simply go off and find another word.

"......What gays can't do is *register* their relationships with the government"

Gays have been less than keen to register their 'love' with Centrelink. That was despite the previous Labor government making special arrangements and encouraging them to do so and Centrelink ensuring that its policy and contact staff were sensitive to their needs.