more catholic bashing!
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highlyeccentricLove not the sole preserve of couples with children
I cannot agree with Chris Meney's assertion that "All relationships are not equal for good reason" (August 16).
One of his central arguments is the necessity to promote heterosexual marriage for the rearing of children. Why does the value of a relationship depend on the ability to procreate? By this argument heterosexual couples who are childless should only have the same rights as homosexual couples (whether they have children or not).
People couple for a variety of reasons but one of the major reasons is love. Love is not the sole preserve of heterosexual couples. Love goes beyond sex. And why is the family considered the central unit of society? That should be community.
Communities are made up of couples, singles and families who each contribute to the nurture of children through the interdependence of human society, whether we as individuals realise it or not.
David Creevey Lane Cove
Chris Meney writes "In short, we need to support, by law and social policy, heterosexual monogamous marriage".
Heterosexual, married couples constitute an important part of society but Meney is also arguing for the suppression, by law and social policy, of other types of relationship. This is the real issue.
Tom Burnell Dulwich Hill
I'm gay, a revelation that will probably shock my family and friends, not to mention that nice guy I've been sharing my bed with for the past 45 years, but every night I pray to God.
I say, please Lord, make me straight, blissfully married with a couple of cute kids to nurture and bring up as happy little Catholic Vegemites. Let me live in the same small and exclusive world that the director of the Marriage and Family Office for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney Chris Meney inhabits.
Meney by name, meany by nature.
Max Fischer Scarborough
At last, a Herald article that makes sense of the gay marriage issue. The article has put into perspective the situation of my elderly neighbour, who has lived with a devoted companion for nearly 20 years but gets none of the social security and taxation benefits of marriage.
Why not? Because they are of the same sex, and one of them is a cat.
M. McClure Armidale
Congratulations to Chris Meney for an incisive and insightful column on the many benefits of heterosexual unions.
It is self- evident that the heterosexual couples ensure the future survival of society by producing the next generation; hence the state has a vested interest in recognising, rewarding and promoting them. Additionally, a heterosexual couple makes many lifestyle and financial sacrifices in having children, and this is recognised in the provision of special benefits and tax breaks by government.
Homosexual unions, on the other hand, cannot produce children and therefore should not be regarded in the same vein. It makes little sense for a government to attempt to increase the birth rate while simultaneously promoting homosexual unions.
Biological truth and sociological reality should always trump emotionally based claims of "discrimination".
Nigel Freitas Roseville
Love not the sole preserve of couples with children
I cannot agree with Chris Meney's assertion that "All relationships are not equal for good reason" (August 16).
One of his central arguments is the necessity to promote heterosexual marriage for the rearing of children. Why does the value of a relationship depend on the ability to procreate? By this argument heterosexual couples who are childless should only have the same rights as homosexual couples (whether they have children or not).
People couple for a variety of reasons but one of the major reasons is love. Love is not the sole preserve of heterosexual couples. Love goes beyond sex. And why is the family considered the central unit of society? That should be community.
Communities are made up of couples, singles and families who each contribute to the nurture of children through the interdependence of human society, whether we as individuals realise it or not.
David Creevey Lane Cove
Chris Meney writes "In short, we need to support, by law and social policy, heterosexual monogamous marriage".
Heterosexual, married couples constitute an important part of society but Meney is also arguing for the suppression, by law and social policy, of other types of relationship. This is the real issue.
Tom Burnell Dulwich Hill
I'm gay, a revelation that will probably shock my family and friends, not to mention that nice guy I've been sharing my bed with for the past 45 years, but every night I pray to God.
I say, please Lord, make me straight, blissfully married with a couple of cute kids to nurture and bring up as happy little Catholic Vegemites. Let me live in the same small and exclusive world that the director of the Marriage and Family Office for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney Chris Meney inhabits.
Meney by name, meany by nature.
Max Fischer Scarborough
At last, a Herald article that makes sense of the gay marriage issue. The article has put into perspective the situation of my elderly neighbour, who has lived with a devoted companion for nearly 20 years but gets none of the social security and taxation benefits of marriage.
Why not? Because they are of the same sex, and one of them is a cat.
M. McClure Armidale
Congratulations to Chris Meney for an incisive and insightful column on the many benefits of heterosexual unions.
It is self- evident that the heterosexual couples ensure the future survival of society by producing the next generation; hence the state has a vested interest in recognising, rewarding and promoting them. Additionally, a heterosexual couple makes many lifestyle and financial sacrifices in having children, and this is recognised in the provision of special benefits and tax breaks by government.
Homosexual unions, on the other hand, cannot produce children and therefore should not be regarded in the same vein. It makes little sense for a government to attempt to increase the birth rate while simultaneously promoting homosexual unions.
Biological truth and sociological reality should always trump emotionally based claims of "discrimination".
Nigel Freitas Roseville