by John | Aug 2, 2012 | AME media releases, Events, News
Veteran US marriage equality advocate, Evan Wolfson, will speak in Sydney next week. Mr Wolfson is the Director of New York-based, Freedom to Marry, author of Why Marriage Matters and has been named by Time Magazine as one of the “100 most influential people in...
by John | Jul 17, 2012 | Australian commentary
Simon Copland’s opposition to the marriage equality campaign is based on myths not facts, theory not reality. For example he argues that the LGBTI movement has liberationist roots which marriage equality somehow betrays. However, LGBTI people were campaigning for...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 9, 2012 | Australian commentary
The following article was first published on the Drum. In his recent Michael Kirby Lecture, Malcolm Turnbull made an excellent case for same-sex marriage that came to an appalling conclusion, civil unions. Part of the problem is that Turnbull has his facts wrong. For...
by John | Jun 7, 2012 | Australian commentary
After heterosexual couples began to get hitched it was all down hill. First they got us ejected from Eden, then men started marrying lots of women at once. Pretty soon we had forced marriages, child betrothals, wife beating and wife burning. And don’t get me started...
by John | May 28, 2012 | Australian commentary
IN our society, marriage is understood to be the exclusive, monogamous union of two people for life. Same-sex couples fit easily within this definition, while polygamists and polyamorists don’t. Those people who hope or fear otherwise simply don’t...
