Australians Decisively Support Same-Sex Marriage

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41992344

Nice to see that Oz is being dragged into the 21st Century, at last !

[jno]

Sqad, in all of human history no Best Answer has ever been awarded to a post the OP disagrees with. That would be going against nature.

[pixie374]

Is it still sex if you use contraception?

[jackthehat]

Well, stop thinking about the 's-e-x' part of our relationships, then.

sheesh...

[EcclesCake]

AOG, Some people have sex for pleasure, I have never wanted children but have had sex.

Not sure how that differs from a same sex relationship.

Have you not done something just for the pleasure it gives you?

[Sqad]

jno......maybe , but what about a well balanced post getting best answer......even an unbiased one?

AOG...you are now touching a delicate part of the discussion.

How can, biologically, a homosexual species survive? Surely it will eventually die. Yes....we do see homosexuality in other species, but for this discussion we are concentrating on the human species.

[pixie374]

Perhaps it's what Mrs Aog has told him :-)

[pixie374]

We have more of an overcrowding problem than a need to reproduce, so it makes perfect sense evolution-wise
that there are homosexual people.

[jim360]

"How can, biologically, a homosexual species survive? Surely it will eventually die."

Only if its population is exclusively homosexual (and even then, gay people have been known to maintain heterosexual relationships if strictly necessary).

Since this does not happen, it's another boorish argument easily rebuffed.

[mccfluff]

AOG - Hans was trying to argue that same sex marriages are wrong and shouldn't be allowed because of sex.

I was pointing out that sex (in all its glorious forms) was around long before humans thought up contracts

[ummmm]

Why can't homosexuals reproduce?

[Mamyalynne]

Sometimes AB is like an alternative universe.

[Sqad]

Jim

"Since this does not happen, it's another boorish argument easily rebuffed."

Sorry that it bores you.....but the fact remains that with an increasing homosexual population the decline of the species will surely decline. This maybe a good thing as pixie above has pointed out. I suppose, from your argument Jim there could be a state where certain Lesbians could be set aside for fertilisation purposes, a sort of Brave New world....could be.....but would that be tolerated ? I think not.
ummmm...Lesbians can only propagate with the help of science and at the moment IVV is only available for those who can afford it......homosexuals i would say.

[jackthehat]

When you 'come out' you don't have your power to reproduce ceremonially removed from your person....

[Sqad]

JTH.....I think that I could work that out......but you do need a third person and the vagaries of biological medicine, which as i said, is only available to those who can afford it.

"Ceremonially"......you are a one for the hyperbole...LOL

[jackthehat]

Only because others seem to make mountains out of molehills.....

The human race will not die out because homosexuals don't have children......generally.

[pixie374]

Not for women, sqad. One of my friends briefly borrowed a man when she wanted children.

[ummmm]

Sqad...many lesbians have conceived by having sex with a man!

[mccfluff]

is it an increasingly homosexual population or is it just being homosexual is becoming less of an issue therefore it isn't being hidden and not talked about as much...

there are countries in this world where owning up to homosexuality publicly would get you imprisoned and/or treated horrifically, I wonder what the percentage of "offical homosexuals" are in those countries versus the actual number...

[Sqad]

Yes.....rentaman would be available......but ummmm....surely you wouldn't allow "ginger" to offer his services?
It would all depend on the availability of sperm banks and the affordability.

[jackthehat]

What?!?

Oh dear......