Abetz ahoy
Senator Abetz has said Australia should not legalise gay marriage because no Asian country has done so. He also warned that it could lead to polyamory
This is high quality stupidity. We should see more of this bloke.
A declaration of official monogamy from members of a sector of society usually known for sexual plurality can’t be construed as a step towards polyamory.
Polyamory is a specific Western movement and has nothing to do with polygamy. Polyamorists tend to have a primary couple (married or otherwise) and one or more satellite partners in an open long-term relationship.
Because they are wired a certain way, most polyamorists couldn’t give a flying fuck about official marriage certificates.
The only Asian partner we need to concern ourselves with is China. Their government’s official policy on homosexuality is “No approval; no disapproval; no promotion”.
But they will change toward recognition of gay rights awfully quickly. I do a lot of business in China. The Chinese do not hold their dogma very dearly; and will let go of it at the sign of the first dollar or a concerted government or social media campaign.
The rest of Asia will be road kill in the path of China’s progression. You can’t please all the people all the time. So we may as well stay just ahead of China just like the pilot fish that we are.
It’s odd when you think about it. Normally when something is illegal people get prosecuted for unlawful activities, like using drugs.
In the case of gay marriage, since the government(s) control the departments of births, deaths and marriages, the only outcome of illegality is that official gay marriage doesn’t happen.
There’s no illicit official marriages going on, and hence there is money in it – no prosecutions, no legal fees, no penalties, nothing.
Maybe they should just privatise all of the state departments of births, deaths and marriages, and let them compete against each other on a national basis.
Pretty quickly we’d have gay marriage. They would be onto that potential increase in market size in a flash.
They would probably gang up and spend millions in the federal courts arguing on some constitutional grounds.
They might even flaunt federal law and hand out gay marriage licenses, thus forcing the court case through action by the federal attorney general’s office.
We did all note that it was the Supreme Court in the US that made the ruling not the Congress or Senate?
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I was going to let it float on by, but your ‘Mind Sugar’ post has goaded me into contrariness! Is this a rare instance of a politician’s words making more sense when taken out of context? Since I can’t see any stupid in your paraphrase of Eric Abetz.
It has always been obvious to me that polyamory, with its deep roots in the Judaeo-Christo-Islamic tradition, would be next (and a good thing, too, since the legal problems faced by polygamous immigrants in Australia are much greater than those faced by same-sex couples). And it is obvious, too, that legalising gay marriage would place us further out of step with our neighbours, especially certain countries across the ditch from Singapore where criminal prosecutions for sodomy are still a big thing. I am sure if such legislation is passed that it will be added to the litany of signs of decadence made by the perpetrators of the next terrorist attack on Australian interests in the near north.
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Okay, so polyamory as defined by the Westerners who would use the word is different, but the dictionary and Wikipedia definitions certainly subsume traditional polygamy. And recent decisions of the supreme court in the rebel North American colonies demonstrate quite clearly that anything can be construed as anything. It all depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is, remember?
I, on the other hand, have never set foot in the renegade mainland provinces and don’t intend to until after the revolution. But Islam will still be a force to be reckoned with in our neighbourhood long after the CCP is in the dustbin of history.
Them’s a wonderfully blended historical singularity.