leoj,

Tiernan Brady was INVITED to Australia and met
with campaign groups and political leaders in
Canberra.

You really need to get your facts straight.

As for what some other activist may say or do on any
other issue - has
nothing to do with Tiernan Brady.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/irish-campaigner-aims-to-bring-marriage-equality-to-australia-1.2595513

Dear rehctub,

I've already told you that I did agree with most
of what you had initially posted regarding changing
Father's Day to Special Person's Day. However your
use of the offensive "these queers" lost my interest
in responding to you because as AJ rightly pointed out
this reference was not indicative of someone who is
willing to engage in issues seriously and thoughtfully.
And since that post you have not posted anything that
would make me change my mind.

Foxy,

There is no doubting your commitment to advocacy for matters Gay and you would instinctively and enthusiastically narrow 'Special Persons Day' to promote the Irish Gay activist and Gay Marriage.

The political correctness of 'Special persons' day was broader-based and aimed at children, impressionable minds, wasn't it and not as you would have it, exclusively for adult Gay men like that Irish activist (and the outrageous Dan Savage and ors imported by the ABC) who are very much about their own individual benefit and are seeking to change the Marriage Act.

Must the self-loathing (faux) left always be genuflecting, cringing, to foreigners, foreign everything? Can't they ever rely on their own?

Better still, will the real Left stand up?

I think you will find most Labor voters don't want gay marriage...

I don't know if that will prove true or not but I suspect it will!

There is a much larger, more pressing issue that has to be addressed and is again surfaced by the SSM survey, which is the complexity and cost of divorce. There are years of delay and festering alienation from the adversarial processes. There are the social costs, perhaps hidden too in the number of suicides and DV.

-Unintended negative consequences added to, worsened, by the re-jigging of de facto by the idealistic Gillard government.

This too, which I raised earlier and in previous threads,

"I don't believe that the majority of homosexuals were ever properly informed and consulted. That is a pity and lost opportunities. Because modern life, especially the technology we have implemented before we understood it, does need different options, different lifestyles and group solutions, in housing& transport, as examples"

What I was saying is that before the authoritarian Gillard government re-jigged de facto to suit radical feminist ideals of the Eighties, there was some prospect that the adventurousness of homosexuals particularly (I deliberately discount bisexuals) and of heterosexual couples who found marriage not to their taste, could result in living and sharing arrangements that made better use of available housing, resources, transport (foot, cycle and public), energy and so on. It is the age of technology and hopefully, low cost sustainability.

Instead we now faced with the time-wasting superficiality of gay bunting. Soon the politicians depart for the Xmas hols. SFA done again, plenty of faux self-righteousness and outrage (Princess Wong leading) and more redundant laws in the making.