OTB,

We're so lucky to have such a sage as yourself
shedding his fathomless light
to discussions on this forum.

Dearest Foxy,

I don't want to make this discussion simply about Gay marriage, but since somebody raised the topic, I suppose we should give the issue the attention it deserves.

There.

Now, back to other issues to do with marriage, more palings in the fence to be kicked in. Why is adoption so difficult for married couples ?

Less than a thousand adoptions are approved each year in Australia, but we know that there must be many times more children at risk with useless, neglectful parents - and surely most of us know of some of those - yet those children are condemned, through no fault of their own, to be shuffled back and forth between short-term foster-parents, back to natural parents, back to foster-parents, off to relations, back to foster-parents.

Surely cut-offs for neglect and/or blatant mistreatment of children, as well as less exploitation of foster-parents, should mean many more children being adopted and being raised in steady, loving homes ?

Just asking.

Love,

Joe

Fox, "Gays are first-class taxpayers but 2nd class citizens"

They may be something else to Centrelink after the Gillard government's back door law changes that broadened the definition of de facto partners and included homosexual relationships.

Speaking of that, has the number of gays registering their relationships with Centrelink increased? There was that lag in expected numbers after Gillard shifted the goalposts on de factos partners.