by John | May 10, 2012 | Australian commentary
This morning my phone woke me earlier than usual with a text from one of my sons, who regularly taps into American politics in the middle of the night. “Obama has come out for gay marriage – how about that!” How about that? Why should he care at 6 o’clock in the...
by John | May 9, 2012 | Australian commentary
IT’S hard to see how the new openly gay senator from Western Australia, Dean Smith, can believe in equality before the law but oppose equality for same-sex couples under the Marriage Act (“New senator ‘constitutional revolutionary’ “,...
by John | May 8, 2012 | Australian commentary
The basic question in the marriage debate about who is to be included, respected and accorded the rights of citizenship is: What kind of society do we want? Specifically, what are we called to work for as Christians? More fundamentally, it is about to whom does...
by John | May 7, 2012 | Australian commentary
One overlooked feature of the marriage equality debate is the level of co-operation it has fostered in the LGBTI community. Groups and individuals who were once suspicious or openly hostile now sit shoulder to shoulder pressing the case for reform. I’ve seen Green,...
by John | May 4, 2012 | Australian commentary
Historians will look back at this year’s two parliamentary inquiries into marriage equality as the beginning of the end of the religious right’s disproportionate influence on Australian politics. On April 13th the Senate marriage equality inquiry announced it...
by John | May 2, 2012 | Australian commentary
In a recent Punch piece Australian Christian Lobby head Jim Wallace reminded us of our unquestioned right to religious freedom. In fact he went so far as to label the push for gay marriage a threat to religious freedom. As a gay marriage advocate let me say this: Mr...
