This same sex marriage issue, it continues to have the perverse effect of making me dislike everyone. The latest:
* I was calling the kerfuffle about the Safe Schools anti bullying program a moral panic from the Right last year, before Benjamin Law got around to writing his essay on the same theme and being treated like a rock star on Twitter for doing so.
* Despite it being a moral panic, that Roz Ward exaggerates massively on the issue and is a bit of a Marxist nutter who just helps feed the equally stupid Right wing conspiracists who think Marxists are the ones who have brainwashed everyone under 30 into no longer fearing or deriding homosexuals, as all right thinking people used to do. (There's sarcasm in there.) Does Law cover the exaggerations of Ward in his essay? (Maybe he does. If so, sorry.)
* I don't like the way people like Law make polite language and argument in one forum, then on Twitter or elsewhere on the net use use language or make poor taste jokes that, if you're going to use them at all (and it doesn't speak well of you if you do) should be kept private - because they should be seen as embarrassing.
* I still think Law is way over rated as a writer of his TV show. It's just not that good.
* I think both Pauline Hanson and Penny Wong are making massively self serving exaggerations in this report. Pauline's just an annoying, dumb twit; Wong is trying to shut down any argument from conservatives that, yes, they do rather think that its preferable for kids to know both of their genetic parents - and much of their objection to same sex marriage is motivated by the normalisation of the deliberate use of reproductive technology by gay couples that will in many cases involve the disconnect between kids and one of their biological parents. That's not to say that Wong's kids will turn out bad - they have well off, smart middle class parents, they'll almost certainly be OK - and for that matter, it may well be that the fathers are in contact with the kids - but laws are about society wide preferences, not just those of individuals.
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penny is a giant hypocrite. where was her outrage when Gillard was against SSM? no one should ever listen to her on this issue again
I agree with Soony. Wong is a very over-rated politician.
At least we know Hanson is a complete idiot. what is Wong's excuse!
To be honest, I know politics is a game and people take insincere positions all the time. So of itself, I don't really hold it against Wong that she insincerely supported the No vote not many years ago.
What I do find annoying, though, is her over dramatising now on the matter of "but we have to protect our kids from ever hearing a bad word about gay families".
By the way they aren't Wong's kids but her 'partners'
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