by John | Jul 10, 2012 | Australian commentary
Andrew Bolt has had a go at my gay marriage speech in his blog today. As far as I can see he has two points to make. First he says that if you recognised gay unions with the title of marriage you open the door to polygamy. This is the weakest and worst sort of...
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 | Sep 4, 2011 | Australian commentary
Near the end of his anti-gay marriage article in today’s Age, Ted Lapkin does get to some substantive reasons why he thinks gay marriage is a bad idea. But much of the article is devoted to the slippery slope argument that once we have gay marriage we will slide into...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 29, 2011 | Australian commentary
The issue of same-sex marriage in Australia is fraught with associated problems that confuse the central issue. These problems range from a residual opposition to same-sex relationships on the social and political level to the religious consciences of those who see...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 16, 2011 | Overseas commentary
Next week marks the sixth anniversary of same-sex marriage becoming legal in Canada. Six years isn’t typically a milestone anniversary; those things tend to be divisible by five. But I started thinking about it after spending last weekend reading A Radiant Life,...
