Foxy, no I was referring to philips when I said HE believed he is always right.

You were not the intended target for that particular post.

I'm sorry if somehow what I said made you believe it was.

I'm pretty sure I put his name at the top/beginning.

Apologies, it seems my grammar and god knows what else, is getting worse.

ALTRAV,

There’s no need to get sarcastic. You're just being petulant now. I’m not always right. Given that I’m human, it would be impossible for me to be right all of the time. However, I clearly know more about the subject areas surrounding same-sex marriage than you do.

Here’s a novel idea: how about you educate yourself instead of making assumptions tailored to suit your preconceived biases? Your current methodology is a good way to ensure that you’re almost always wrong. Even if you manage to get something right (as even a broken clock does twice a day), it would only be by accident.

<<I'll stop reading all these publications that are wrong or lying or out of date …>>

You don’t have to stop reading them (you would never know that they were wrong if you didn't read them, by the way), you just need get into the habit of exercising a healthy scepticism, and verifying claims, even if they support your pre-existing beliefs.

<<I will also promise to remain a homophobic bigot and other things I have momentarily forgotten.>>

Well, that’s a rather random and confused-sounding comment, buy, okay. I wouldn’t recommend remaining a bigot, though.

<<I will stop seeking the truth and looking for things that are not there.>>

You should always seek the truth, else how would you know what is and is not there? Just don’t stake your position out in advance and sort through evidence, employing confirmation bias as you go. Easier said than done, I know, but there are techniques you can learn to help with this. As a starting point, I would recommend reading Carl Sagan’s, ‘Demon-Haunted World’.

<<I think I've covered everything.>>

No, unfortunately you were setting yourself up to continue the train wreck that has been your contribution on this thread.

Look, start with Sagan's, ‘Demon-Haunted World’; then read Michael Shermer’s, ‘Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time’. It’s books like these that helped drag me out of the flawed mindset that was keeping me a Christian.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349.The_Demon_Haunted_World
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89281.Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things

Dear Is Mise,

I'm sorry but I no longer care to
continue this argument with you.

Have a nice day.

Dear ALTRAV,

Thank you for your apology.

It's my own fault for having misinterpreted
your post. It's just that this accusation
has been levelled at me so many times by
certain people on this forum that
I just assumed it was me you were referring to.
But I'm glad that you were not.

Again - Thank You.

Foxy bows out without the courtesy of giving a reference as to where the ABS said that

"61.6% of the Australian population votes YES"

which she quoted the ABS as saying.

There is something wrong when a person gives a quote, with attribution, then refuses to give a reference, one is left with the suspicion that they made it up.

It’s a tiresome old line:

1) A makes claims X, Y, and Z.
2) B discredits the claims.
3) A gets defensive and distressed because X, Y, and Z form an integral part of A’s worldview.
4) A then claims that B must, therefore, think they know everything.

There is a glaring absence of logic between 3 and 4. It is a gaping hole that is never filled.