En Passant

One way to help gays and lesbians achieve equality would be to abolish the school chaplaincy program and introduce a real program in schools for addressing homophobia, whether religious or not.

That should include trained social and welfare workers. Labor won’t do that.

Another way to send a message that all Australian citizens are equal would be to legislate for gay marriage. Again, Labor won’t do that.

To many people today, especially young people, the ban on same-sex marriage is an anachronistic denial of a basic civil right – a throwback to a bygone age of intolerance and anti-gay bigotry. But the hostility of both Liberal and Labor governments to same-sex marriage is not simply the product of the prejudices of a […]

Here in the Australian Capital Territory the Labor Party (in minority Government) supported a Greens’ Bill giving legal recognition to same sex unions which passed just under 2 weeks ago. Federally the homophobic and anti-equal rights Rudd Labor Government will suggest changes to the Act which effectively gut it. The local Catholic archbishop weighed in […]

The 200,000 strong march for sexual equality was not just a turning point in the LGBT struggle. It kicked the door open for a civil rights movement for Equality Across America.

Given the Rudd Government’s determination to maintain the homophobic ban on same-sex marriage, we need to keep the militant pressure up.

By marching for same-sex marriage on August 1 we forced Labor to acknowledge the issue, and we raised the murmurings of dissent that are rippling through society into a collective roar.

Is Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard homophobic, or just trying to appeal to homophobes? A few weeks ago Malcolm Turnbull appointed Christopher Pyne as the Opposition Leader of Business in the House.  Tony Abbot used to do the job when the Coalition was in power. Here’s what Gillard is reported to have told Parliament about […]

This is from a recent press release by the US Westboro Baptist Church thanking their god for the bush fires and praying for more deaths. GOD HATES AUSTRALIA. THANK GOD FOR KILLER FIRES & FLOODS, 100+DEAD; PRAY FOR MANY MORE; AS WE WARNED. They supposedly plan to demonstrate outside the mourning services today for those […]

The hierarchy of the Catholic Church has recently been strutting its homophobia and misogyny on the catwalk of reaction.  Recently I wrote on this site (Religion, marxism and all that jazz) that we on the Left should not be dismissive of religious people because with billions in the Christian and Muslims faiths, they will be part […]