Comments on: ACT Labor for marriage equality

By: oliver

oliver — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:07:07 +0000

Dave, what exactly is a “sociopath”? is that a word you found in wikipedia?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:17:28 +0000

I find facts very short with you Oliver, lots of homophobia in your post, but few facts. Your agenda is a hate filled one, that is for sure. From abusing the “Gay Community” to supporting sacking people on the basis of their sexuality, your offer the pathology of a sociopath.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:03:52 +0000

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/catholic-priest-shortfall-an-imminent-disaster-20110304-1bi54.html#ixzz1TkmOAvv5 Over a fifth of the Catholic Priest left in Australia are imported from countries like Nigeria and India. Since 1994 184 parishes have merged. Today 1282 Australian parishes have 1523 priests but by 2025, the report says, there may be as few as 600 home-grown priests. The average age of the Priest left in Australia is 64.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:01:30 +0000

in actual fact dave, Australia has over 150,000 priests and the average age is 38.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:23:53 +0000

When Joe De Bruyn, head of the powerful SDA Union, who controls the Prime Ministers Numbers, rampages against the Civil Rights of people in the name of the Catholic Church almighty, we have to have to reflect on a Labor Party that has become corrupt and broken and all to Latin Mass for my liking. It is not just equality in Marriage that Joe shouts against, and let’s face it, not all people support equality straight or gay, One Nation members tend to think there are still to many Chinese, there are many rights Joe throffs at the mouth about in the name of the Catholic Church, from IVF to Same-Sex parenting rights, to the Equal Opportunity Act. Joe has no problem towing the Vatican line that our existence is not natural. http://search.news.com.au/search/De+Bruyn/50/?us=ndmfoxsports&sid=5001021&as=FOXS&ac=search&r=seealso

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:57:14 +0000

By: David Smyth

David Smyth — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:05:53 +0000

Marriage is so gay! ;)

By: Peter In Brisbane

Peter In Brisbane — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:13:40 +0000

Well said Dave.

My friends and I will also vote Green.

Oh for the great days of Australia in the 50, 60, and 70’s.

What a wonderful country it was then. Now it has been trashed, it’s blood contaminated by trash.

By: oliver

oliver — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:27:40 +0000

Dave, you cease to amaze me. Nowhere in the article was the word “catholic” mentioned yet you still had to put in your “usual”. 1500 priests that operate the catholic churches? where do you get that figure from?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:53:09 +0000

The winds of change are blowing. The challenge will be for Federal Labor to push aside the Ultra Right Catholic SDA Union, and their millions, and listen to ordinary rank and file members.

There would be more Gay Dad’s and Mum’s in Australia then those that operate this Catholic Union. There would be more children of Gay Mum’s and Dad’s then make up the 1500 Priest that operate the Catholic Churches.

I will continue voting Green, and planning my marriage in New York while Federal Labor refers just one right to Marry, to a Federal Conference. We still have a situation where we are excluded from the Federal Equal Opportunity Act, and in many government funded jobs we can be sacked. Our existence should never be treated as a crime in any employment or access to government funded services.

There are people working hard for change within the Labor Party, but I am only able to judge it by the outcomes of its policies. When my people, when my community, is valued just as much as the next person on the street, and are afforded the same legal protections as the next person on the street, then I might consider not voting Green, but until that day comes, I will not have faith dashed again and again by a party who does not fully accept me, and puts laws of oppression and infringements in place based on my sexuality.

I had to ask, how many years would the Liberal and Labor party take before they gave us full equality before the law, and I think it will be decades. You would think the Federal Equal Opportunity Act, would be easier then the right of Marriage to pass, but both major parties have no policy to change this either.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:15:46 +0000

But I will not hold my breath. Gillard will be spooked by the loss of the outer suburban blue collar constituency she needs to retain for re-election

The push and pulls factors of the two VERY DIFFERENT CONSTITUENCIES

University Educated Left & Blue Collar working Class

Only if this Post Whitlam Alliance is maintained does the ALP have any chance of winning elections at any level in the future.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:10:25 +0000

It’s sad that the NSW Catholic Right along side Catholic Conservative Union leadership the SDA voted to postpone NSW branch vote until Federal Conference in December

The ALP should honour its rank and file and vote FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY in December

By: otto

otto — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:41:48 +0000

The vote by ACT Labor means that every state and territory branch of the Labor Party save NSW, and its Women’s Conference has voted in favour of same-sex marriage, while the NSW branch voted to refer the issue to the party’s national conference in December.”

We really need to up the pressure between now and that conference. This is crunch time.