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Left fights left in 'gay marriage' wars

By Ben-Peter Terpstra - posted Thursday, 2 December 2010


Australian considerations  

There are ideological battles, indeed. But surprising battles? No. The Australian’s Christopher Pearson (who just happens to be gay) wrote in the Weekend Australian, “The most obvious thing about the arguments in support of same-sex marriage is their shallowness. The best Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young could manage last week was to remind us breathlessly that we are living in the year 2010, as though that settled the matter. The Greens' line that all loving couples deserve to be treated equally is just as specious.” 

He adds, “Among the reasons the Greens are so keen on same-sex marriage is that they want to reduce the population and drive down national fertility. Their refusal to discriminate positively in favour of heterosexuality and uphold the distinctive value of normal marriage shows their political project yet again for what it is: a dead end.” 

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And he notes that this isn’t just about Christians. Can Labor afford to isolate more votingJews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists? Perhaps Joe de Bruyn has a point. After all, it’s 2010, and crime statistics say that fatherless families hurt our community, and that creating more of them isn’t clever welfare politics. 

What’s more, there’s news that some gay activists appear to be faking majorities (a sign of desperation). As columnist Miranda Devine pointed out in the Sunday Herald Sun, Galaxy’s poll of 1050 voters (which found 62 per cent of Australia’s favour gay marriage) was commissioned by activist groups.

Its leading question? "A number of countries allow same-sex couples to marry. These include Argentina, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa and Spain, as well as parts of the United States and Mexico. Do you agree or disagree that same-sex couples in Australia should be able to marry?"

Read: rigged. But also read: desperate divided left-wingers.

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This article was first published on Quadrant Online on November 24, 2010



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Ben-Peter Terpstra has provided commentary for The Daily Caller (Washington D.C.), NewsReal Blog (Los Angeles), Quadrant (Sydney), and Menzies House (Adelaide).

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