by John | Apr 25, 2012 | Overseas commentary
For conservatives like Rick Santorum, the response to the question of whether gay marriage should be legal is simple. Santorum once declared: “Marriage is what marriage is. Marriage existed before there was a government. It’s like … saying this glass of water is...
by John | Dec 19, 2011 | Australian commentary
With more than 4 million hits, GetUp’s recently-released It’s Time ad is the most popular marriage equality ad ever, anywhere. The actors are attractive and the editing is excellent. But they’re not the reasons it has been viewed so much. The ad is...
by John | Dec 9, 2011 | Australian commentary
Two very different but significant decisions were made in Australia last week which have a bearing on the nature of marriage. Firstly on November 30 the High Court overturned ‘spousal privilege’, the common law right of a spouse (in this and virtually...
by John | Dec 7, 2011 | Australian commentary
Perhaps matrimony should be made more exclusive and special – not so as to keep out gays, but to get heterosexuals interested. Now that Labor has recognised that permanent gay unions are as entitled to the name of matrimony as any other union, it might be a good...
by John | Sep 29, 2011 | Australian commentary
Just over a century ago, the Anglo-French writer, Hilaire Belloc, declared himself “opposed to women voting as men vote. I call it immoral, because I think the bringing of one’s women, one’s mothers and sisters and wives into the political arena,...