http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/jacob-holman/ Jacob Holman is a writer and broadcaster for JOY 94.9, and is currently based in Melbourne. He Tweets far too much at @JacobLeigh. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Australia-edges-closer-to-a-gay-old-time-at-the-altar/ It hasn’t been a very good week for the anti-gay marriage people in this country. The results from two independent parliamentary surveys came out on Monday, both giving marriage equality thumping majority support. “We are comprehensively losing this,” the Australian Christian Lobby wrote in an email to its followers before the deadline, foreshadowing the inevitable. “But it is this weight of numbers that a complicit press will report, and we must win it and then pray the strength of argument in our considered ones prevails.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen desperation quite like that before, and yet I’ve been to the only gay bar in Adelaide. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Jacob Holman) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Australia-edges-closer-to-a-gay-old-time-at-the-altar/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Australia-edges-closer-to-a-gay-old-time-at-the-altar/#item8336 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:45:14 +0000 Jacob Holman | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gop-god-guns-and-gays/ On Wednesday, Iowa voters were the first in the union to ink their index finger, so to speak, handing Mitt Romney a win with one of the barest margins in recent history - just eight votes - but for all intents giving Rick Santorum the decisive moral victory. Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry rounded out the top five. A mediocre cache of candidates in 2012 for sure, but in a lot of ways that makes it all the more frightening, mainly (but not exclusively) for gays in America. Some 60,000 people caucused for Romney and Santorum; the difference between the two was less than half a Duggar family. That’s the family famous for 19 Kids and Counting, the reality series about evangelical Christians Jim Bob (yes, really) and Michelle Duggar and their brood of nineteen children (yes, really really). Twelve Duggar children travelled to Iowa to support Rick Santorum, trumpeting his socially conservative religious views. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Jacob Holman) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gop-god-guns-and-gays/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gop-god-guns-and-gays/#item7487 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:55:05 +0000 Jacob Holman | Author bios | The Punch