http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/sarah-gilbert/ Sarah Gilbert is a writer and journalist. Since starting out as a News Ltd copy girl, she has worked as tabloid reporter in New York, a TV journalist in Sydney and a travel writer in Argentina. She now freelances for a number of publications, and though based in Sydney, spends a lot of time in Buenos Aires. 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/Those-big-fat-gay-weddings-will-be-well-worth-crashing/ There are some very odd bedfellows in the anti-gay-marriage camp. Like, for example, conservative Christians and gay libertarians. The former think that gays will wreck marriage, the latter that marriage will wreck gays. The first argument goes like this: marriage was made by God to unite men and women. Gay marriage will debase that institution, stripping it of its sacred meaning. The same argument, couched in more secular terms, is offered just as often by people who say they are against discrimination, except when it comes to marriage because… and then insert whatever spurious, depressingly legalistic, horribly thin argument you choose… feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sarah Gilbert) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Those-big-fat-gay-weddings-will-be-well-worth-crashing/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Those-big-fat-gay-weddings-will-be-well-worth-crashing/#item6195 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:55:40 +0000 Sarah Gilbert | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Meat-to-please-you-not-so-pleased-to-meet-you/ It’s interesting, isn’t it, that the general public finds itself dismayed and outraged about our live export industry, which transports our happy, healthy cows to deepest darkest Asia to meet a cruel and violent death, at the same time as our government is preparing to transport our refugees to the very same region and it’s only the Greens and the usual bleeding-heart refo activists that are arcing up. This week, we heard Senator Sarah Hanson-Young hopes to thwart the Government’s plan to send refugees to Malaysia – where refugee treatment includes the occasional caning – by introducing an amendment to the Migration Act that will oblige Julia Gillard to seek the Parliament’s permission before sending refugees to a third country. The opposition will support Hanson-Young out of sheer contrarianism rather than concern for human rights. But she’ll take her support where she can get it, since the tens of thousands who signed online petitions and wrote to their local members begging them to save our cows don’t seem to have much compassion left over for the human cargo. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sarah Gilbert) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Meat-to-please-you-not-so-pleased-to-meet-you/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Meat-to-please-you-not-so-pleased-to-meet-you/#item6081 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:55:46 +0000 Sarah Gilbert | Author bios | The Punch