Sorry Foxy but I don't share your optimism because these people want more than marriage equality but I've thrashed that point to death. They simply can't accept that god created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

As for governments, regardless of the side they are too worried about public opinion to get anything done which usually leads to policy on the run.

I'd hate to think where we would be Today had our forefathers who fought in the past wars gave so much consideration to queers, but they were still in the closet back then.

Dear Rehctub,

If God didn't create Adam and Steve
who did?

.....If God didn't create Adam and Steve
who did?

Channel ten Foxy because before they started to broadcast their parade in Oxford street they stayed in the closset.

Poirot, why is it that most racism is caused by the self proclaimed victims?

I hear ya, rehctub.

<<Channel ten Foxy because before they started to broadcast their parade in Oxford street they stayed in the closset.>>

Same goes for them goddamn blacks. Where was the American people's conscience vote on segregation, huh?!

I tell ya, those Lefties will be the end of us.

rehctub,

"Poirot, why is it that most racism is caused by the self proclaimed victims?"

I don't know why you're asking me that stupid question - all I did was put up a chocolate cake recipe.

Fox, " If the losers in the political process don't accept the legitimacy of the process under which they have lost they may well resort ..to more radical tactics outside the institutional framework"

Hopefully that is just hot air. If it isn't, the offending activists who break the law will find themselves in Court.

Because the most significant forces behind the political push for gay marriage are NOT homosexuals, but the Labor and Greens political parties, doubtless they may be forced to choose other issues to get headlines if and when the electorate reminds them at election time of the important issues such as infrastructure, unemployment and those 'Struggles Streets' they are ignoring.

General Comments
Labor and the Greens also need to be aware that they cannot continue to be dismissive of the load being placed on singles and young couples by their extensions (when in government) of spousal entitlements and benefits to defactos (definition of defacto broadened as well) and then to gay defactos who are all now regarded by government as 'marrieds'.

If there ever was some rationale in the distant past for conditions and entitlements that favour 'marrieds' over singles, it no longer exists. It is unfair, discriminatory, for singles to be denied benefits enjoyed by 'marrieds' especially where the number of 'marrieds' has been increased substantially through the inclusion on defacto 'relationships' and then again, by including homosexual defactos as a further burden.

As reminder, singles vote and in large numbers. Also, women feature strongly in the singles population.