Jim’s position–not as “anti” as I in my haste first thought–is clarified in the following posts, which I highly recommend:
Murder, Mr Rudd & Gay Marriage – confusions about values in an over-regulated society
Mr Rudd and Gay Marriage Revisited
Let’s Take the Law out of Marriage
See also Marcellous on this issue.
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Thanks for this, AV. I found this thread a personaly useful as well as interesting exchange because of the way it clarified issues.
I’ll have to have a read myself before entering the discussion proper.