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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.
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If you’re like me, you’ve been wondering with trepidation what will happen when the Gaypocalypse finally strikes.
Are fudge-packers, nancy-boys, and pillow-biters all names for the same thing, or do they signify a hierarchy of types and sizes, like orcs? Which are most dangerous? And where do the Poohole Pirates come in? Are they like the Men of Harad?
What about elephants? Will there be elephants? Will they be pink? Will we be forced to toil in underground sequin mines while Freddy Mercury lashes us with moustachioed falsetto arpeggios? And dear God, why didn’t we listen to Fred Nile?
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Sheyne says:
I am always deeply amused by those anti-gay uber-liberals who claim that allowing gay couples to affirm their love and commitment to each other via the exchange of marriage vows and rings will somehow debase or devalue THEIR relationships. Really? I mean, I would have thought the institution of marriage… Read more »
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mel says:
Oh my, MB Andrews, you don’t like the idea of same sex marriage, do you? You act as if you are one of those crazy religious fundamentalists. There are two questions related to same sex marriage in the survey: 1. Same-sex marriages are legal in a number of countries, such… Read more »
The boys and girls I was filming on the beach were mostly pre-teens.
Where are you going to show it? a girl asked. ” On You Tube” I replied. The kids screamed so loudly with delight the sound on my camera distorted.
I didnt have permission from these kids parents to film them but it was not until the following day that it occurred to me that this might be a problem.
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Clem Gorman says:
Recently, in Paris, filming kids randomly - from a distance - in a playground, an angry kid came up and abused us. So we stopped. I feel that if the image is suggestive, or is made for porn reasons, it should be an offence to show it on the net,… Read more »
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Carlos says:
The point of this subject is to resolve that we’re creating fear. Constantly we’re putting fear on people’s mind, on child’s mind. We have to educate ourselves first. Pedophiles are human beings, they were sexually abused by priests or a family member. Some of them became pedophiles as a consequence… Read more »
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