Questions of morality

Questions of morality

The battle over equal marriage is hotting up again. The dinosaurs of the Liberal Party and the Australian Christian Lobby are once more howling about ‘protecting’ marriage, by which they mean protecting their own false sense of superiority.

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hile, Cardinal Pell seeks public assurances from equality advocates that “not all opposition to same-sex marriage is homophobic and discriminatory”.

Cardinals are only the Vatican’s messenger boys, however exalted. And ambitious cardinals are unlikely to concede anything that might cruel their chances of ascending to the papal throne.

The price being demanded for a conversation with such an individual far exceeds its value.

Besides, Pell, the ACL and the Liberal Party are fighting a mirage. Far from wanting to ‘destroy’ marriage, gays and lesbians are rushing to embrace it.

It was not always so. Forty or more years ago when the Gay Liberation Front began, we did indeed wish to destroy the institution of marriage, and devise new ways of celebrating our relationships.

As children of the 1950s, we had seen first-hand the stifling and oppressive institution in which our parents were confined. Especially our mothers.

Marriage kept women in subjection. Businesses automatically fired them when they married. They needed their husbands’ written consent to open a bank account or transact business.

It was their duty to stick by their husbands, no matter how they treated them. Divorce was difficult, and too expensive for most. Employers, landlords, and society in general reinforced the message by openly discriminating against divorced women.

We wanted no part of this institution.

Anyway, not having to get married was one of the few perks of being gay. Like not having to use condoms.

How things change.

Now we want the house, the car, the kids and a cute little life in suburbia, all in the name of equality. Far from trying to change society, we are changing ourselves to fit in with the society that already exists.

This is not the equality we dreamed of. Then we envisaged everyone else becoming more like us.

Have we have fallen for a fantasy, the happy smiling facade we were once so keen to tear down?

Because when advocates for our equality can seriously consider sitting down to sup with a senior representative of the most unequal and morally corrupt institution on earth, which still maintains women in subjection, I fear we are.

Before we even think about talking, let Pell give some public assurances of his own.

That all discrimination is abomination, because all human beings are fully equal before God.

That’d do for a start. I’m sure you have some ideas of your own to add.

Then he might be worth talking to.

In the meantime, let me publicly assure him that all opposition to equal marriage is indeed homophobic, discriminatory, and morally wrong.

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One response to “Questions of morality”

  1. Strangely enough you don’t seem to have noticed that the things you mention :” Now we want the house, the car, the kids and a cute little life in suburbia, all in the name of equality. Far from trying to change society, we are changing ourselves to fit in with the society that already exists.” … are already available to every member of our community, already embraced by many in our community, plus many more advantages like Government Benefits, Wills & Probate, Adoption Laws, etc that you might care to catch up with sometime soon.
    I’m surprised the GREEN ‘ saviours ‘ don’t rate a mention here as well.
    I have to agree you are spot on about Pell and his cohorts and cronies … a pox upon their houses.