Dear ALTRAV,

You've aroused my curiousity.

When, according to the West Australian newspaper
did the "poofter bashings" take place exactly?
Were they recent?
It seems difficult to believe seeing as WA voted
so strongly with the YES campaign.

Perhaps you could supply us with a link to the
article in the newspaper.

Thanks.

Belinda an outspoken No voter in WA has received a request for a SSM couple to have treatment for their upcoming marriage. Being a devout Catholic she cannot accept this couple on conscience grounds, though she has many lesbian clients. At the present there is no protection in place to protect her acting on her conscientious objections.

Foxy, thank you for being so kind as to ask me for this info. I hold the page in question in my hand at this moment. It is page#5, dated Friday Nov 17th. The heading is, 'Gay men lured on app for sex then bashed'. When I said this was going to happen and the 'look over your shoulder' comment that followed, it was not, as some have suggested, that I was hoping for this to happen. I was actually warning the queers of this happening, more so than usual. And here we are now. I don't know if this is of any use as I am not computer savy, but at the top, in the middle of the page it has 'thewest.com.au' it might be another link to the newspaper and then you probably have to do an internal search. Please do look it up. I am not linguistically endowed otherwise I would have tried to explain why the YES camp had the result it did over the NO's. All I can say is the result is not what it seems. The best analogy I can give is the US election. If we are to believe the stories, even though Trump won, he did not win in the true and traditional definition of winning. If that makes sense to anyone. I know what I'm trying to say but I just can't set it out right. Anyway foxy, do follow it up and at least, as I said before, if nothing else it will vindicate me and I might not be judged so harshly.

SSM will not effect heterosexuals in any way.

This year adoption by same sex couples was made legal in every state except NT.

Under this circumstance SSM should have been legalised prior to the new adoption laws.

Children have the right to married parents ... the entire situation beggars belief.

Josephus,

"treatment"?
Are they a professional? I have no sympathy for their conscience if their registration implies full competence, including awareness and compliance with the applicable legislation. If their religion prevents them from providing the full range of services, they ought not to have registered.
Given their lesbian clients, the objection seems a bit too specific to be genuinely conscientious.

Rusty.

Dear ALTRAV,

Thanks for that.

I'll try to give it a go.

Thanks also for your patience with me.