Shadow, I am big enough to say I agree with you on that. At the time, 2011 during the NSW State election there were also those who distributed non-complient anti Green material in the Marrickville electorate on that subject. Material which contained a number of untruths. You can take this opportunity to attack The Greens on an unrelated subject.
The question is do you agree with Plibersek that Labor's parliamentary members should comply with party policy and vote accordingly? I say yes, what do you say.

Dear Yuyutsu,

Members of a group are free to tell such jokes on one another. Outsiders aren't. The stereotype is very much alive.

Previous Labor federal governments have already installed compulsory common law marriage for homosexuals whether they want it, desire it, intend it, or not.

There is already FULL State recognition of their 'relationships', which is the new-speak of feminists and leftist 'Progressives' and deliberately sidesteps the institution of marriage that they despise and would do away with tomorrow if they could. The changes to the de facto, common law, new-speak 'relationships', also made bigamy acceptable to the State, bypassing the laws against it.

Was the electorate consulted? No! It was all done behind closed doors.

The proof is that State bureaucrats and courts can and do inform homosexuals of their relationship status and over-rule the will/intent/choice'decision of the person/s concerned. So too are homosexual 'relationship' break-ups subject to State regulation, whereas before the choices, decisions and agreements were made by the individuals themselves.

Homosexuals have NEVER wanted to be included in the Marriage Act. That is just a few Gay Pride activists aping the US lead, but mainly, overwhelmingly, it was the strategy of the feminists and 'Progressives', who hijacked homosexuals for their own secondary agendas.

Homosexuals were lazy and crazy to ever allow the feminists and political 'Progressives' to dictate to them, leading them by the nose. The few young gay pride activists who were used as a front by the feminists and 'Progressives'- both with long discredited Marxist agendas - let homosexuals down.

The rest is history, but probably only obvious to same sex unrelated people living together and the older homosexuals whose pensions are under review, or await the compulsory inspections and interrogations from Social Security dob-ins.

Compulsion is what the totalitarian leftists are all about. No surprise at all that a Green would be pushing central State control and loss of individual choice.

In the good old days (in this case 35 years ago), I knew two couples that lived in the same house in a terrace of two story houses.

Both couples were on the dole and someone dobbed them in , Social Security (or whatever it was called then) arrived at the front door and started asking questions.
One of the boys said that they had it wrong he and his mate were homosexuals and they shared the downstairs bedroom and that the girls were lesbians and shared the upstairs bedroom.
This was accepted and SS went their way and never troubled them again.

Just why a couple who are on the dole and actively looking for work should get less because they are sleeping together has always escaped me, when one considers that others who are sharing accommodation, but are not in a relationship get full benefits.

Homosexuals have been conned.

What has been overlooked are the homosexuals who do not want marriage; are they then to be registered as de'fucto?

Three of the reasons I favour same sex marriage:

1. I am a man worried to a woman I love deeply. It is a source of great happiness to me. We are committed to each other, and the commitment is recognised. I wish happiness to those of the same sex who feel that way about each other.

2. One of the reasons for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases is promiscuity. Encouraging committed relationships lessens promiscuity.

3. One of problems we face is population growth. No species including humans can increase indefinitely. People get married to one of the opposite sex and breed. Some of them would rather be in a same sex union if that were available. That sort of union does not produce children.

Increasing the sum total of human happiness, concern for public health and lessening population growth are reasons that I favour allowing same sex marriage.