//I've never heard of this "Country Women's Association" before.//

No, of course you haven't...

Foxy,

"Same-sex couples have been "fighting" the good fight
for decades but the odds against them winning remain powerful
after centuries of their not being accepted being the
social norm."

They are not the social norm, which is a good thing.

Gee Yuyutsu,

Sooooorry about that, not knowing what the CWA is, its an Aussie institution up there with meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars. As Aussie as the RSL that's The Returned and Services League in case your not familiar Me old Granny was a member of the Country Women's Association for over 60 years. Granny was a bit of a radical in the ranks, not so much into baking scones. Granny was an alternative lifestyler specializing in cup cakes, but a conservative when it came to pickles, doing the traditional mustard style. I do believe it cost the CWA $122, sorry pounds, to conduct a survey back in 1957 as to whether cup cakers would be given equal rights with the sconers. Although it was a moral issue at the time, several large organisations came out in support of a yes vote including the male only, rather macho Farmers & Graziers Association, wanting to be seen in the community as inclusive. The debate got heated at times, and violent as well. Leader of the Country Party and alternative Prime Minister 'Blackjack' McEwen a dour conservative and vote No advocate was assaulted on the streets of Gilgandra when a would be yes voter, hurled a cup cake, the fairy variety of course, at Blackjack, hitting him fair on the scone! Blackjack was not seriously injured, only requiring three months hospitalization and amputation of his left leg. The number one proponent of a Yes vote Prime Minister "Pig Iron' Bob Menzies promised to introduce legislation protecting the rights of scone makers, but after the survey. The result was a resounding victory for the Yes vote, the final count was overwhelming with two voters in favour of a change in the law, against one for the "No's" a two thirds majority! That is why cup cakes can today be eaten by our school children without the fear of feeling different or discriminated against.

Dear Is Mise,

The following link just might broaden your outlook:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing_of_same-sex_unions_in_Christian_churches

The Anglican Church of Australia in 2013 -
The Diocese of Perth voted in favour of recognising
same-sex marriage.

The Diocese of Gippsland has appointed a gay priest.

St Andrews Church in Subiaco Perth has blessed a same-sex
union. And so it goes.

The times are changing.

Hi Foxy,

They were always a radical mob those Anglicans, I recall good Sister Mary, an old Irish nun I had in the third grade, often told us that there was some hope of redemption for the pagans, you know the pagans, Buddhists, Hindus, and such like, misguided souls as they were, but as sure as the Holy Father was a Catholic, there was no hope for the Protestants, particularly the Anglicans, like Henry VIII before them, Sister Mary assured us they would all burn in Hell for eternity and a day! Maybe longer!
You couldn't buck Sister Mary she was an authority on such matters.

Humans don't change from being human. It is only the few who lead complicated lives and almost always through their own selfish choices. A poster gave an example earlier of what it considered to be the 'evolved' woman and family, but one suspects that the lived reality with the spin stripped, is different.

Plainly the feminists and 'Progressives' who have been attacking marriage and family for decades are now right and one suspects they may have had a hand in it, a self-fulfilling prophesy. Because the incidence of dreadful negative consequences of marriage is even more apparent in modern times along with the tsunami in parental alienation (PAS). Family law desperately needs review before adding more victims to the failed, outmoded institution of marriage, as the feminists and 'Progressives' would have it.

To the feminists and 'progressives, SSM should be akin to parachuting hundreds more onto the marriage 'Titanic', already being swamped by the sea. The Federal Law Court is inundated and years behind. Legal costs have skyrocketed and couples are left renting digs and desperate.