Bob Brown … devil’s advocate?
I have had a gutful of Bob Brown today. I woke up to hear him spruking on behalf of gay marriage and then, by lunchtime, he was criticising the government over the refugee swap program. lets look at each of these ideas separately.
Gay Marriage
I have no problem with Bob Brown being gay – that is his choice – but I protest his determination to advance the concept of marriage for gay partners. He will not marry his partner if gay marriage is legalised in Australia – an event the party founder has predicted will occur in the Gillard government’s first term.
As a married man, with grandchildren, I give thanks to the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. Marriage is a religious rite between a man and a woman that is enshrined in civil law throughout the world. Historically. marriage is the accepted/preferred union for the procreation of our species and is still enshrined in civil law.
Without procreation, society withers and dies. Those in gay unions cannot make a valid contribution to the survival of the species. Don’t give me the crap about gay couples producing children by surragacy which is still against Australian law.
I am offended by the very idea of two men – or two women – being granted the equality of recognition of marriage that is currently reserved for the union between man and woman … as it should be.
Refugee Swap with Malaysia.
Bob Brown claimed the Greens to be the “humanitarian party” and criticised the “two major parties” for being hellbent on exporting Australia’s problem with refugees arriving by boats to other countries. Whilst I agree that the Australian Government has walked away from it’s responsibility all the way back through the Howard years.
However, when asked if he would bring down the Gillard Government over this issue, he said no because it would mean the ascension of the demon Abbott to become Prime Minister.
How can he be genuine to his beliefs if he rails against the inhumanity of the Gillard Government sending unattached children to Malaysia and not be prepared to do anything about it whilst he holds the balance of power in our government.
Greg Naylor
Lee
I supported The Green Party handing out flyers during the last election for them over several days but if Bob Brown (who I have on a pedestal) does not stop the children from being sent to malaysian detention centers I will never support them again and you are right Bob Brown is not true to his ideals if he does not walk away from the Gillard Government we can easily look after these kids if their families don’t want them.Kids deserve our protection I am ashamed of Australia’s stance on this UNLESS they help keep these kids.Bob Brown…please don’t let me and other Greens down stand up and fight for them like you always do for the underdog.!
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Kay Devenish
Kay Devenish
7 August 2011 at 3:43 pm
I suspect the relevant issue in gay marriage has more to do with mundane things like inhereitance entitlements, taxation issues and various other beurocratic considerations rather than can they procreate (obviously not). I have yet to hear a single valid argument as to why a person of one sexual orientation should have fewer rights than one of another based SOLELY on that orientation.
It’s a logical falacy. You may not approve of someone else’s lifestyle, there’s plenty of people I think are going about life the wrong way, ultimately when you have a system that allows rights to some citizens and not others, you’re in for a world of trouble.
Hence I support gay marriage, gay people seem to be the only ones who actually WANT to get married anymore anyway.
Even if we accepted unquestioningly every single person who washed up on our beaches as a “valid refugee” and put them up for the duration, we wouldn’t make a significant difference to the global problem of displaced persons.
What we can do, will do and are doing is adversely affect our own culture with ethnic schisms, racial tensions and a list of problems associated with multiculturalism too numerous to mention.
It never fails to amuse me the double standard of your typical knee-jerk lefty that when our colonial forebears turned up to this country, that was an “invasion” (utter garbage), but when a few score thousand uninvited boat arrivals turn up from the middle east, they’re “asylum seekers”.
I suspect the popularity of the Greens has peaked, once they actually start having a say in how the country is run, people will stop barracking for them as an underdog and see them as the mischeious influence they actually are.
I just wish they’d push issues worth pushing instead of lame duck issues like swamping Australia with a few million NESBs.
alburywodongaonline
7 November 2011 at 1:21 pm