Scientist can clone gay fruit flies and lesbian mice. I cannot imagine a God, who would create some of us as homosexual and say his creation is wrong. If homosexual animals can be cloned, and are still homosexual, clearly we are as God made us. This is perhaps why Jesus never said a word against gay couples who were married around him. It is why the early church was very accepting of us. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is of male rape, of offering your daughters up to strangers. It is the story of being rude to others much like I see the Christian Lobby doing, in their pursuit of unchristian like behaviour. For generations some have used the Bible for their own power. If the Christian Lobby truly believed homosexuality is a sin, then why not go after the greatest sin idolatry? I struggle to see artciles about that in their publications. The answer lies in the need for some to unite against a common enemy. If one is not around, they make one. The money flows in when this happens! There talk is that we are attacking a public institution, attacking a way of life, attacking the existence of each congregation member. I thought divorce might be a greater attack on Marriage! In short, the Christian Lobby does not engage in Christ like behaviour. I hardly think loudly applauding an American Far Right Evangalical, standing up in the Great Hall of our Parliament, calling the unborn baby of Penny Wong, the Greatest Evil, is what Jesus would be doing. I do not know any Christians who would think Jesus would join in for a bit of hate cries.

The majority of Christians, as we know form the Polls, support Marriage Equality. They support us living as freely as the next person . They want us included in the Federal Equal Opportunity Act and want discrimination to end. There are some Christians, a minority, who do not agree about divorce, the role of women in the Church, or even interracial marriage. There are some Churches who only recently accepted people who were not white, and this is ironic when you think about what was the colour of Jesus skin. Not white, and he would not have been blond either or blue eyed. So we should not get too caught up in the weeds of the Christian Lobby tired old rhetoric, and look at some of the many positives such as Jessica Rudd coming out to stand with us, as so many people are now doing.

To quote from an Anglican Arch-Bishop, and someone who really understood discrimination.

“To penalise someone because of their sexual orientation is like what used to happen to us; to be penalised for something which we could do nothing [about] — our ethnicity, our race. I would find it quite unacceptable to condemn, persecute a minority that has already been persecuted.” Nobel Peace Prize winner and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.