If the Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen (”Same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy, says Jensen”, June 11) really believes that opposition to same-sex marriage is an immutable matter of principle divinely ordained by God, then why does he need to resort to making alarming predictions that homosexual activity can lead directly to polygamy and incest?
The fact that heterosexual activity can lead to these same practices not only destroys his argument, but it reveals his own human inability to accept same-sex couples with the same honour, dignity and respect as he would couples in a traditional marriage union.
It is also specious to argue that by calling same-sex relationships marriages that society is somehow legitimating an ”abuse of marriage itself”. The central and defining feature of marriage is the love, faithfulness and lifelong commitment between two people.
Having two people of the same gender does not necessarily constitute abuse. It is in dishonouring their union in the eyes of God that constitutes abuse.
Rev Vincent Zankin Rivett (ACT)
And masturbation will lead to blindness.
Ron Kerr Ballina
Archbishop Jensen does not speak for all Christians, certainly not this one. I have never found the slippery-slope argument persuasive or rational, and in this case it becomes deeply offensive. To say that same-sex marriage could lead to incest, to be even compared to such an abusive act, lacks any foundation apart from being alarmist and shocking.
I can’t imagine how hurtful the remarks must be to such people as Michael Kirby and his partner whose same-sex relationship spans more than 40 years. I don’t consider my own marriage to be ”abused” or in any way debased by others making a similar choice.
Josie McSkimming Coogee
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