http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/30/mcclelland-cant-duck-the-gay-marriage-issue/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/30/mcclelland-cant-duck-the-gay-marriage-issue/#comment-10065 Connor Moran Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-10065 Rodney Croome, Kerin Phelps and friends need to concede that THEY are DIFFERENT. I will fight to prevent gay adoption, IVF and most definitely prevent gay marriage. This tiny minority wants the majority to treat them as normal, but they are nothing of the sort. At some point there IS a LIMIT to what the majority will find normal or dare I say it, natural. We don't permit people to say "my preference is that I can have sex with 10-year-olds, I'm a minority, so therefore you (majority) should stop discriminating against me". Society/nature sets a limit, and I believe I'm with the majority that says no gay marriage, no gay IVF and no gay adoption. Rodney Croome, Kerin Phelps and friends need to concede that THEY are DIFFERENT. I will fight to prevent gay adoption, IVF and most definitely prevent gay marriage. This tiny minority wants the majority to treat them as normal, but they are nothing of the sort. At some point there IS a LIMIT to what the majority will find normal or dare I say it, natural. We don’t permit people to say “my preference is that I can have sex with 10-year-olds, I’m a minority, so therefore you (majority) should stop discriminating against me”. Society/nature sets a limit, and I believe I’m with the majority that says no gay marriage, no gay IVF and no gay adoption.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/30/mcclelland-cant-duck-the-gay-marriage-issue/#comment-10066 kate Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-10066 Connor, you said this already, and it was purile and offensive the first time too. Gay relationships are ADULT, CONSENTING relationships which harm no-one. Formalising such relationships is just as "natural" as hetero marriage, which is an entirely unnatural and sociel constructed concept. There is no evidence, and no good policy reason, to prevent gay people from adopting and conceiving children. Connor, you said this already, and it was purile and offensive the first time too. Gay relationships are ADULT, CONSENTING relationships which harm no-one. Formalising such relationships is just as “natural” as hetero marriage, which is an entirely unnatural and sociel constructed concept. There is no evidence, and no good policy reason, to prevent gay people from adopting and conceiving children.

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