GAY TRUTH

What sort of marriages do homosexual people want? Behind the heat of the political campaigns for and against gay marriage lie some more subtle issues.  This applies to the Christian opposition to the change, but there are also debates within gay communities. A panel of homosexual authors at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ festival expressed some radical ideas about marriage. The topic was “Why get married when you could be happy?” and the panel, facilitated by Annette Shun Wah , included: Jeanette Winterson , a best selling British Author; Benjamin Law , Australian writer; Masha Gessen , Russian author and journalist; and Dennis Altman , director of the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University . Eternity  can’t venture an opinion as to how representative these voices are in the gay community. But they are distinguished and significant voices which contradict the bland assurances that heterosexual marriages won’t be affected if gay marriage is introduced i...

MY EVALUATION Below is a round table discussion of a variety of people from boths sides of the gay debate. I note that the prohibitions on homosexuality as listed by scripture are absent, and not even referred to. The argument tend to be limited in logic. The God of scripture is ignored and self generated human rights are presented as superior to God's law. The myth of youth suicide is again pushed as a reason for gay marriage. Many believe Gay Marriage will remove discrimination against gays from society. The sin of homosexuality, God's view of it and removal of restraints against it clearly points to the fact that homosexuality will never be accepted ever....but perhaps only in the minds of those who are lost in this particular sin and darkness. Geraldine Doogue invites six people to dinner to explore arguments for and against same sex marriage in Australia . Last week Compass featured the stories of three same sex couples who would dearly like to get married - if only t...

Image via Wikipedia Dennis Altman , in a comment piece for yesterday's The Age in response to the ALP conference's decision on gay marriage writes: "The campaign for marriage equality, largely run by younger women and men, not all of them gay, is one of the most successful examples of effective lobbying in Australia over the past few decades." Altman is correct. The questions social conservatives need to ask, though, are why has the cultural-left been so successful in shaping the public debate and why have we reached a stage where many expect that the Australian Parliament, in the near future, will radically redefine the definition of marriage? Image via Wikipedia One of the key strategies used by the left in the culture wars is to take a medium to long-term view and to embark on what the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci describes as the long march through the institutions. Beginning in the late '60s and early '70s, institutions like schools and univer...