by John | Feb 21, 2013 | Australian commentary, Overseas commentary
For many years I wrote in defence of the traditional and religious definition of marriage. I spoke to and wrote for conservative and religious audiences in Australia and overseas. I tried to describe, and by doing so preserve, the meaning of traditional and religious...
by John | Dec 1, 2012 | News, World news
France is likely to become the latest country to legalise gay marriage, as Socialist president Francois Hollande moves to fulfil a promise he made during his campaign last spring. But that promise is being met with resistance from conservative and religious groups in...
by John | Oct 19, 2012 | Overseas commentary
In late September, Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark, N.J., upped the ante in the hierarchy’s culture war against LGBT civil rights by declaring that those who support marriage equality should refrain from receiving the Eucharist. With somewhere between 52...
by John | Oct 13, 2012 | News, World news
Openly gay British actor, writer, comedian and intellectual Stephen Fry has launched an attack on opponents of same-sex marriage by declaring that “there are 260 species of animal which display gay tendencies, but only one that is homophobic: humans.” Fry was speaking...
by John | Sep 22, 2012 | Australian commentary
Given the attention currently devoted to questioning or defending the notion of ”traditional marriage”, it pays to consider this: throughout most of written history, ”traditional marriage” has involved non-monogamous relationships in which...