Reasons Not to Legalize Gay Marriage?

I have a number of gay friends and I believe the treatment they recieve from the Howard Government is disgraceful. In support of my friends I am posting the following reasons why Gay Marriage should not be legal (note the sarcasm please)

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Australians always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in Australia

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans…

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GWB’s Best Moment–In His Own Words

Reading about George Bush’s current visit to Australia for APEC ( or OPEC as GWB calls it) reminded me of something I read a few months back.

May 10, 2006
GWB’s Best Moment–In His Own Words
Filed under: Uncategorized, Ethics in Goverment, General Commentary, Energy & Sustainability — Shel @ 6:45 am

It’s not some flaming leftist saying this. George W. Bush himself, according to the Reuters newswire, told a German paper,

“I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake,” he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

Pretty sad. An administration so disgraceful, so scandal-ridden, such a failure in both policy and operations that even the president can’t think of anything he’s proud of.

Georgie, my boy, let me prod your memory a bit–I can think of at least a few proud moments:

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, you made a conscious and I believe sincere effort to distinguish between the terrorists and ordinary Muslims and Arabs. Of course, that didn’t stop various government agencies from coming down very hard on those communities, imprisoning people on spurious grounds, etc.
In one of your State of the Union addresses, you advocated hydrogen cars–a good thing, if designed in ways that foster sustainability and independence from the big oil companies. I think that was the same year your State of the Union speech honored Rosa Parks, who was in the audience.
And finally, in the very recent past you’ve said we must end our oil addiction. I’d like to think you’re sincere about that, and that you’ll follow up that statement with a significant infusion of R&D money into solar, wind, geothermal, even biodiesel (but not nuclear, for heaven’s sake). In the nearly two years left in your administration, you could go down in history as the president who solarized America–a rather better legacy than catching a fish!
Your real legacy to date, however, is a lot less positive. To bring up just a handful of the many, many low points:

Lying repeatedly to get us into a stupid, stupid war in Iraq
Leaving New Orleans to drown
Doing nothing to prevent 9/11 even though evidence strongly suggests the attack was widely known, in advance
Overseeing an administration dogged by corruption, mismanagement, venality, yes-man-ism, and unwillingness to listen to critical voices
Turning over public resources for private gain
Squandering both the reservoir of international good will following 9/11 and the considerable surplus you inherited
And on and on it goes–this list could continue for pages. We’ve had presidents who were outdoorsmen before, including both Roosevelts and Ronald Reagan, among others. But never a president who felt his best moment in office was catching a fish!