The “debate” on same-sex has been a sham. Using its media power, the SSM lobby and broader Left have howled down and suppressed the contra case. By John Muscat. Just like the carbon dioxide theory of global warming.

What has passed for debate so far is a sham. Using their preponderant media power, the SSM lobby and broader Left have suppressed the contra case with jackboot tactics. They have shrunk, trivialised and obscured the issues at stake. A contrasting approach came, ironically, from Labor’s Joe Bullock, who recently resigned his senate seat in protest at the ALP’s pro-SSM position. …

It’s often said that the impacts of SSM are largely confined to the gay community … But amending the definition of marriage will send cultural messages reverberating across society. … [It] weakens the once valued link between procreation and parenthood, taking it to breaking point. Another message is that fatherhood and motherhood have no distinctive characteristics, and can be replaced by some generic concept of co-parenthood. …

These messages hasten our transition from a “parent society” to a nanny state, since failures in family formation attract rising levels of bureaucratic intervention. Forced to abandon their old dream of nationalising the instruments of economic life, the Left has turned its sights on nationalising aspects of domestic life.

UPDATE: The ALA is running a petition to protect the Marriage Act and to hold a binding referendum at the next federal election.

hat-tip Stephen Neil