Nov 19
This is what she said …
“I always thought Australia would pass this equal rights law long before America would,” she said.
“I’m a little bit disappointed with the new Prime Minister. I’m hoping that Australia will be a leader on this.”
Now as attacks go, I’m sure you’ll agree it makes the Polish Blitzkrieg look a little like cracker night circa 1963, yes?
So I don’t know about you folks, but me?
I’m packin’ some dry goods and headin’ for mah shelter in the woods.
In what is being presented as a great step forward in the debate on gay marriage/same-sex marriage/equal marriage rights a motion was passed by one vote saying that MP’s should talk to their constituents about the subject.
FEDERAL MPs will gauge the views of their electorates on same-sex marriage, after the Australian Greens succeeded in convincing Labor and three independents to back a motion in parliament.
Greens MP Adam Bandt’s original motion noted that there was widespread support for gay marriage in the Australian community and that at least six countries already allowed it.
But an amendment by Labor MP Stephen Jones deleted these references and instead called on all MPs to “gauge their constituents‘ views on ways to achieve equal treatment for same-sex couples, including marriage”.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but talking to their constituents is their fucking job! Not only did they effectively have to be told what the duties of their job is, but 72 of them voted against the motion. To clarify, the motion was amended so that it wasn’t an endorsement of gay marriage but that Members of Parliament should gauge the views of their constituents, you know the very thing they get paid to do.
I support gay marriage, but regardless I think MP’s that are against gay marriage should debate and argue why they don’t support it rather than shut down debate at every opportunity. MP’s should also have the common fucking courtesy to at least pretend that they represent everyone in their electorate, not just the ones with similar political views. If you cant even show the common respect to just listen to people that have a differing point of view then resign, Parliament is not the place for you.
And remember this when these MP’s start arguing that they need a pay rise. The 72 of you who voted against doing your job, I don’t see how they can justify they deserve it.
“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Genesis 3:16
Happy families indeed.
Good old-fashioned family values …
A buck seventy five from Woolworths, two for three if you’ve got room enough in the freezer …
Greg Donnelly, Government Whip in the NSW parliament, has decided to rattle his chain over the issue of gay adoption in “The Punch”, coming out (so to speak) firmly against the concept by declaring …
“There can be no doubt about how the complementary nature of both motherhood and fatherhood benefits the wellbeing of children. Indeed, up until recent time, and I literally mean the last few years, this perspective about parenting has been taken as a given. Society has accepted the proposition that it is good for a child to be raised by a mother and father in a permanent, preferably married relationship.”
Garbage.
Donnelly’s assumption appears to be based firmly on the notion, the illusion, that one’s personality, one’s fitness to be a decent human being, a parent or guardian, rests solely on how one chooses to entertain one’s genitals.
For in Donnelly’s world, it seems it’s where you stick it or lick it that counts for everything.
Which says far more about Donnelly’s emotional infantilism and sexual immaturity than it does about gay men or women or their ability to provide a loving and nurturing environment in which to raise a child, something that is most definitely not the sole province of all those nice mums and dads in “permanent, preferably married relationship(s)”.
I suspect if you were to scratch a little deeper at Donnelly’s shallow psyche, you’d uncover just another garden variety bigoted bonehead given to pursing his lips and tut-tutting over shameless displays of G!A!Y! abandon at the Sydney Mardi Gras each year, just another stitched-up old fart consumed by all manner of conspiracy theories to do with the so-called “Gay Agenda”.
It’s eugenics, Greg, but not as we know it. This time, it’s all about the right way to root, and rooting out the fuckers who are getting their rooting all arse up.
And it is all about the sex to Donnelly and others of his kind, let’s make no bones about that.
For to labour under the illusion that gay men and women are incapable of committing to a relationship with a partner for any length of time, of committing to anything other than random acts of lubed-up, sweaty fisting in a public toilet in the dark, dead hours of the night is as ludicrous an assumption as is believing a heterosexual marriage magically bestows upon its participants some saintly status of domestic bliss and harmony, instantly gifting them the ability to be quality parents, which a quick scan of headlines from any newspaper from any city in any country of the world on any day will dismiss as a towering pile of sheer, steaming bullshit of the first order every time.
Ah, the perfection and heavenly bliss of all these blessed heterosexual unions, how it gleams in the pure and golden glow of those sunbeams from Jesus up on high. Love and fidelity and grey flannel suits and lace doilies and dinner on the table for the man of the house at 6pm sharp every night after a hard day’s work …
… And a little later on, the wife’s in bed with The Good Book, the kids are asleep, and dad’s catching up on a little work in the home office, his pants around his ankles as he pulls himself to a brand new heart attack over the latest selection of cumshots of barely legal teens taking it in all three holes …
Hell, I see no reason why gay couples shouldn’t be allowed to fuck up a child in the same way a husband and wife can and have always managed to do, and have been doing since time began.
Though given the constant, nit-picking, nagging scrutiny they’d be subjected to by the holier-than-thou, self-obsessed, self-righteous, pseudo-puritanical little ponces of Donnelly’s stripe, I suspect many same-sex couples would go to great pains to avoid the type of parenting that sees the children of so many straight marriages wind up in DOCS and shuffled from one foster parent to the next like draughts on a tattered paper chessboard.
One day, the likes of Donnelly will simply disappear by natural attrition, they’ll just pop their clogs and drop like the dinosaurs, and, generations from now, we will look back at their statements, mouths agape, minds in a boggle, and come to regard such people with the same type of astonishment we feel today toward the Salem witch-hunts.
That day cannot come too soon.
But I doubt I’ll be around to ever see it.
Jul 1
Gay Marriage?
Julia says no.
And the case against is so eloquently and articulately stated in this comment on Senthorun Raj’s pro gay marriage column in today’s Sydney Morning Herald (my bolding and caps on a few notable key words) …
why would the gay rights lobby instantly expect instant major ammendments to marriage laws? just because there is a new BUM on a seat who refuses to get married? the institution of marriage is one of the oldest traditions in the world and just because certain countries have decided to alter their views on it does that immediately make them progressive,why? because they allow for same SEX unions?. as far as drawing parrallels between racial segregation and gays not being able to marry is somewhat over reactionary last time i looked i saw no signs reading hetero only,besides,a lot of same sex relationships are not based on the same principles as are those between opposite sexes,gay people fall in and out of love at the drop of a hat,their relationships are very ficle and fleeting,the bond between same sex couples is not the same as between men and women,the reasons behind this are very simple,nature, nature has programmed opposite sexes to attract for one purpose, procreation, i realise i will be stoned,burned at the stake and quartered for my views here,i will probably be called a TYPICAL hetero who hates gays blah blah blah, but before the potential mr and mr smith or msrs and msrs brown sharpen their knives here,let me assure you that i do not hate gays,i work with a lot of gays and treat gays with the same respect as anybody,however,i also know that gay people tend to get overprescious about great many things,not just marriage.
Because gay men and gay women have no right to be “normal”, just like everybody else …