Lowering age of consent would harm anti-trafficking efforts

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Kevin Rudd on Slavery, Same-Sex Marriage and Biblical Literacy

This week Prime Minister Kevin Rudd used a confused argument about the Bible to defend his position on same-sex marriage.

Four Research Issues Relating to Same-Sex Marriage

This post gives an overview of what I have been able to learn about research studies about issues which affect the same-sex marriage debate.  I have a table below which summarizes claims and findings about four key empirical questions relevant to the same-sex marriage debate.

Queering Marriage

The current push for same-sex marriage is but a staging post in a deeper and longer-term campaign being waged against heteronormativity and heterosexism.  Heteronormativity is the assumption that heterosexuality is the norm and heterosexism is the resulting bias in favour of opposite sex relationships.

In Defense of Marriage: a response to Kevin Rudd

I was intrigued to read of Kevin Rudd's change of heart on gay marriage last week. He now supports changing the legal definition of marriage to encompass same-sex relationships.  Whereas in 2008 Rudd championed the removal of all other forms of discrimination against same-sex couples, he now  believes Australia should go all the way to equalize same-sex relations, right down to and including the fundamental building block of the family, marriage itself.

Dr Kermit Gosnell's Chamber of Horrors

Dr Kermit Gosnell was until recently an abortion provider in Philadelphia.  When a raid was conducted against his facility, euphemistically referred to as the Family and Women's Medical Society, what FBI agents and state police discovered horrified them. 

Looking for marriage in all the wrong places -- By Spengler

This article was originally published here with the Asia Times.

Two mutually incompatible arguments are advanced to defend gay marriage. The first states that marriage is a good thing provided by the state, such that gay people have the same right to it as anyone else. The second states that marriage is a bad thing, and that bringing gay people into the institution of marriage will destroy it from the inside.