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Polity: Gay marriage, weed, and death with dignity

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  • Moz, in reply to Craig Young,

    Thanks Craig, I know there are a lot of people like you who do care about equality.

    I suspect given what happened in the case of monogamous gay marriage equality and same-sex parenting,

    Yes, time. But those kids exist now, and have done for a long time. Plus we have a huge number of blended families now, making the argument that "every child must have exactly one mummy and exactly one daddy, forever" seem possibly even stupider than I made it sound. NZ has a fair bit of experience with "more than two" families, if we choose to look for it.

    And on a less happy note, in Australia we're apparently still discussing whether right wing MPs should be allowed consciences. Unfortunately that is limited to the issue of gay marriage rather than more important stuff like whether rape camps for refugees are good (the right wing position), "our leader has problems" (Labour) or bad (The Greens)

    Sydney, West Island • Since Nov 2006 • 1233 posts Report Reply

  • Moz, in reply to Moz,

    on a less happy note, in Australia

    ... the christian wrong are using the threat of polyamory as a reason to oppose gay marriage. At least it's a backdown from the threat of beastiality.
    http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/02/tony-abbott-digs-in-to-frustrate-any-posibillity-of-same-sex-marriage-vote

    Sydney, West Island • Since Nov 2006 • 1233 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    How the Supreme Court's decision is playing out in Iran:

    A leading Iranian actor has apologised after coming under pressure over a tweet he posted in support of a historic US supreme court ruling on gay marriage.

    Bahram Radan, who is known as the Iranian Brad Pitt, created controversy in the country when his tweet hailed a verdict last week which made same-sex marriage a legal right across the entirety of the US. Homosexuality remains a taboo subject inside the Islamic republic and is punishable by death.

    “The US supreme court’s ruling that same-sex marriage is legal was historic, perhaps on the scale of the end of slavery ... from Lincoln to Obama,” the award-winning actor tweeted in Persian at the weekend.

    But within a few hours, after many users bombarded him with homophobic abuse and hardline media criticised him, Radan deleted the tweet.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Young, in reply to Moz,

    Here, this might help. In Canada, the Bountiful case upheld Section 293 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which bans polygamy. However, its presiding Justice, Robert Bauman, distinguished polygamy from polyamory, which he didn't regard as illegal. Here's a link.

    eference re Section 293 of the Canadian Criminal Code: 2011 British Columbia Supreme Court 1588 CanLii: http://canlii.ca/en/bc/bcsc/ doc/2011/2011bcsc1588/ 2011bcsc1588.html

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 573 posts Report Reply

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