Andrew Fraser and Queensland Same Sex Unions
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Andrew Fraser introduced same sex unions into the Queensland parliament because he said it was "the right thing to do." It is not uncommon to hear people insist on the constructed arbitrariness of moral values and yet denounce certain human actions as wrong because they violate human rights . In this case the perceived oppression of homosexuals in the Queensland community. That such a self-contradictory absurdity seems to be widespread and tends to escape the notice of its protagonists suggests both that it is deeply rooted and that it fulfills an important function. Its latter half depends on smuggling or the importation of unacknowledged premises and convictions from normative religious worldviews that protagonists like Fraser have discarded, and which are inadmissible on Fraser's own naturalist terms. If rape or murder is wrong, then all moral values are not arbitrary, and therefore there must be a ...