Rudd's Backs Away From Gay Marriage

Rudd's Backs Away From Gay Marriage
G'day Reader,
Anyone out there? Ah well, I'm gunna rant on this topic anyway.
Prime Monster KRudd has done it again. During his campaign for election his Party, Labor, lead many people I know personally as well as those making statements in the news that true Equality for same-sex couples would be not only a priority but would be one of his governments first acts. And that includes, Gay Marriage.
This subject particularly catches my attention now as I've recently had my eldest Daughter marry, and now my wife and I are helping friends with setting up for their same-sex wedding.
Bemoan and ridicule me all you like for my support of Gay Marriage if you wish, but I was taught as I grew up that we all have a Soul. All those Souls are equal, whether male or female. So it's no stretch of logic at all to accept two Souls of the same gender wishing to become partners for life as spouses. I hate the word Spouse, but the language hasn't kept up with the times so its the only word that describes both male-male and female-female partners in a Gay marriage.
More of my justification of my support?
Homosexual men and women have been around as long as humans have been around. If one accepts Evolutionary Theory it was probably around in our prehistoric ancestral forms as well. We see it in nature all the time, and if this is so, for the "Believers" then it is God's Will that some animals AND PEOPLE be homosexual. Just the same, hermaphrodites happen. So following the same logical thread, surely some people are born into the wrong gendered body and so with our technology today we can help them to be and feel like the gender they believe themselves to be. But that one is for another day.
For now, I wish to say to the naysayers on Gay Marriage/Committment/Civil Unions/[Add politically correct bullshit pseudonym] that if homosexuality is a Sin then it's a Sin on those who Practice it and no skin off your nose. However the same Teachings of the Bible say, 'Judge not lest ye be Judged' so it's not anyone else's place to criticise. Christ himself never went around condemning everyone but merely set an example to be followed. Thus he left it up to each individuals choice to simply live the best life they could while mortal. Criticism and condemnation of homosexuality in the Bible is more a product of the times and culture than anything else as nowhere is "God" or "Christ" quoted as saying ANYTHING on the subject. Historically, fundamentalist christians(deliberate lower class c) seem to be among the only people who can't seem to embrace homosexuals and homosexuality as being normal. Fair enough the Greeks and their predecessors worshipped all sorts of odd and strange demigods, but they also thrived for centuries and their culture was enhanced by simply accepting all the people within their culture. For goodness sake, even Alexander the Great is a known historical figure who preferred the company of the same gender for both commeradery and sex.
Haven't we, as supposedly well educated and civilised western human beings, evolved far enough and learned enough yet that we can accept and embrace ALL people within our communities? Do we still have to hang on to ridiculous superstitions and out-dated predjudices fuelled by false information and 'stories'? It's time to use your Brain! That wondrously incredible organ inside your brain box and forget the propaganda of generations of bigots and the ignorant. DO your own research, think for yourselves and stand up for some other human beings who are being denied the freedoms heterosexuals enjoy every day. The simple surety of a union of two people in the hopes it will last a lifetime and be as happy in old age as it is when young.
I promised myself to keep this short, but for those of you who voted for Mr Krudd: had you bothered to look up his biography, you'd have known he has a hardline, right-wing christian background. I tried to warn people, but of course 'political advertising' tells the Truth doesn't it? For those too stupid, lazy or ignorant to actually look into who you are voting for and find out their and their party's history, you got what you deserve.
[Read the link attached to the heading for the news article upon which this rant is based]