tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post281030685499895923..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Adjectival OppressionBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-55659876725144504402011-12-15T14:49:32.898+11:002011-12-15T14:49:32.898+11:00Please excuse this late posting. (I have been pere...Please excuse this late posting. (I have been peregrinating about the salubrious Southern Highlands of NSW, where also may be found some splendid golf courses Prof).<br /><br />I agree with you. I think it is accepted that the 'marriage power' in the federal Consitution may be employed to legislate for marriage-like realtionships. So what is now the 'Marriage Act' could be changed to the 'Civil Unions Act' and permit any 2 people (with exceptions, eg, for age and perhaps consanguinity) to form a union. Chuches could provide for a marriage ceremony. <br /><br />Then, and this my additional bit, various statutes that recognise de facto relationships ahould be amended so that only a properly formalised civil union was recognised. This would stop much rorting of the welfare system and give greater certainty and a fairer operation to laws about succession and the like.rafikinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-42224764482719467892011-12-14T10:01:58.529+11:002011-12-14T10:01:58.529+11:00I get the feeling that the gay lobby are really co...I get the feeling that the gay lobby are really confused to what they want, because they all stupid lefties with littel brains. What they want is for gay long-term relationships to have the same rights as heterosexual married couples. That is simple, you amend all the laws giving those rights (ege social security, succession, superannuation and taxation legislation) so that a partners in a civil union bewteen a gay couple is treated in tha same manner as a spouse in a marriage. <br /><br />You don't antagonise people by wanking on about gay marriage, which is a maningless collocation of words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-68653305119441986822011-12-13T23:56:50.773+11:002011-12-13T23:56:50.773+11:00Is Flossie male or female;
we don't wish to pr...Is Flossie male or female;<br />we don't wish to promote abnormal behaviour in the beast? Moreover, has Flossie had a defacto relationship with any live or deceased animals whose wishes need to be accorded recognition. Let any animal or animals now speak, grunt, give us a sign, or forever hold their peace.<br /><br />allah hu akbar Professor,<br />"....you missed the starting gun ....." Pink Floyd.PhillipGeorge(c)2011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-63350013929895294272011-12-13T22:44:17.919+11:002011-12-13T22:44:17.919+11:00I can only agree with the Professor on this issue....I can only agree with the Professor on this issue. Being a smelly, obese and unattractive female due to an accident of birth I finally found love and sexual relationships with Flossie, my pet pygmy elephant. I am outraged at suggestions by gay and lesbian people in particular that I am somehow morally or genetically deficient in my overwhelming desire to have sexual relations with an elephant. I want to hold, love and cherish Flossie as my legally wedded wife. It is not something that I have any choice about. Flossie is my true love and we have a right to be happy. Move on Australia. Get with the program. Let's set an example for the rest of the world to follow. Get the government out of the marriage business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-54776294048778850762011-12-13T21:39:54.812+11:002011-12-13T21:39:54.812+11:00I believe it is not so easy. What do you do about ...I believe it is not so easy. What do you do about dissolution of marriage, and division of marital assets? Working back from there, you need to know if the parties come within the jurisdiction of that legislation. So you need to be able to define a marriage - even if it is celebrated by mormons, or muslims, or greenies.<br />It is reasonable to have rules restricting marriage - it is hard to argue against both parties needing to have the mental capacity to voluntarily enter into a marriage.<br />Granted that Murphy's law (the 1975 Family Law Act is a mess, and perhaps needs re-writing. But I still want a codification of whatever the common community perception of marriage is.Thomas the Toutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-4948217355129359582011-12-13T21:29:36.554+11:002011-12-13T21:29:36.554+11:00I am unaquainted with homosexual salmon, but in th...I am unaquainted with homosexual salmon, but in the air-breathing dry lands we humans inhabit, your request for the state to absent itself from ordering society would create yet another vacuum for the activism of a "Green" or perhaps sharia mindset to exercise itself in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-89267705106947519942011-12-13T20:21:16.579+11:002011-12-13T20:21:16.579+11:00Maybe as a courtesy to a couple of gay friends, I ...Maybe as a courtesy to a couple of gay friends, I should have sounded out their opinions before I posted here. Alas, such an undertaking was well down on the scale of things to do.<br /><br />Whether or not legislation is amended to incorporate same sex matters little to me for this reason:<br /><br />Will such an amendment affect me? No.<br /><br />I have scant respect for the sanctity of marriage or the act of marriage itself, so I won't be working myself into a lather one way or another.<br /><br />JMHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-72633748955865156472011-12-13T18:59:25.428+11:002011-12-13T18:59:25.428+11:00Decided to be bold Professor, and swim against the...Decided to be bold Professor, and swim against the gathering mainstream.<br /><br />Sadly the spawn that we produce in our battle up the rapids has a long maturation period and likes to know who its mum and dad were. If only we were adjectivally gay little salmon, each to his or her own, abandonned free in the sensual stream of life, how easy it would all be. If only individual people were not gifted their genes by an individual man and an individual woman and if only it did not matter - but matter it does, deeply, individually. <br /><br />The Rubaiyat laments and reflects: <br /><br />"Ah Love! could thou and I conspire<br />To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire<br />Would we not shatter it to bits .. and then<br />Remould it nearer to the heart's desire?"<br /><br />Perhaps we should just learn to live with the wish, and remember the old wisdom: "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it".Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-3766580731693989612011-12-13T16:37:34.519+11:002011-12-13T16:37:34.519+11:00I love your work Professor, but have to disagree w...I love your work Professor, but have to disagree with you there.<br /><br />While government hands out money to sole parents, provides child allowances and funds child protection, welfare education and health programs, then it has an obligation to legitimise, protect and endorse the reationship status that provides the best return on investment - that is marriage between a man and a woman.<br /><br /><b>-- Nora</b>Nick and Nora Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00622813032953302131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-55159201591922114492011-12-13T16:10:27.968+11:002011-12-13T16:10:27.968+11:00That's funny!That's funny!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70900734439226506772011-12-13T16:04:05.990+11:002011-12-13T16:04:05.990+11:00Get the government out of people's private lif...Get the government out of people's private life's,fancy these dysfunctional political DRONGOS interfering in normal peoples affairs! Let them get their own affairs in order first and keep their hands out of the till !Borisgodunovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18251294056445027166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-2774021866083407852011-12-13T14:38:04.791+11:002011-12-13T14:38:04.791+11:00Get the government out of marriage, period. If two...Get the government out of marriage, period. If two or more adults want to get 'married' in a church that will accept them, fine. Or by a celebrant of their choice, ditto. Abolish civil marriage.adhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08071426054290731432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-49363925852412632802011-12-13T14:27:03.293+11:002011-12-13T14:27:03.293+11:00If it is to be "gay marriage" would that...If it is to be "gay marriage" would that preclude two non-gay broheims getting hitched? Why should two straight guys who want to get married be discriminated against? They might have sound reasons for entering into vows of wedlock, eg upcoming court case where they might be required to testify against each other. Who's to deny them their happiness?ARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15621927091855054704noreply@blogger.com