GAY TRUTH

THERE is a simple and elegant solution to the problem of people being annoyed by brewers doing promotional deals with the Bible Society , or phone companies waving the rainbow flag for gay marriage : Stop listening. Stop caring. Stop paying attention to anything that a business has to say about anything that is not connected to its core business . If a manufacturer wants to make noise about trade policy or the price of electricity , fair enough, that’s bread and ­butter stuff. But if that same company decides to start playing in the social policy arena, the most appropriate response is to say “what would they know?” and move on. In a healthy society people can have disagreements with one another and still do business together. Likewise, in an ideal world companies would stick to ­providing quality goods and services rather than believing their success is dependent on their political stances. But in an unhealthy society, not so much. That is why the events of the past week were s...

Beer, Bibles , Bullies and Bigotry If anything is absolutely crystal clear by now, it is this: those who scream the most about diversity, acceptance and tolerance are the most intolerant folks around. The secular left in general and the militant homosexual lobby in particular are obvious and blatant examples of this. They are not in the least bit interested in allowing actual debate and discussion to take place about any of their sacrosanct agenda items.  We either agree fully with what they are pushing, or we must sit down and shut up. There is no middle ground here. We saw another prime example of this when a brief video on homosexual marriage was put out by the Bible Society of Australia in conjunction with Coopers Brewery . A very civil debate featuring two Liberals (one a homosexual in favour of it, one a heterosexual against it) was a light-hearted and friendly bit of discussion about this key issue. But the homosexual lobby – as always – went abso...