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In today's Sydney Morning Herald, Greens' Senator Sarah Hanson-Young wrote a great piece about the legalisation of gay marriage in New York.

Australia having not passed the same law was put into sharp relief - by Sean Maguire


For me the timing was especially bad because I'm reading "The Lucky Country". For anyone who hasn't read the book it can be summarised as a study into how Australia is mediocre, lazy and prone to imitation rather than originality.

It seems in the intervening 35 years since "The Lucky Country" was published we can't even imitate any more.

Should Australia go down the road of Canada, Sweden, Argentina, Spain and 6 U.S States by legalising gay marriage? Tell us and remember...Disqus!
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The ads were continuing the fight against sexually transmitted diseases amongst the gay population, yet a concerted effort by the Australian Christian Lobby to get them removed has been successful.
 
To me this says two contradictory things, Christians in Australia either don´t like gay people or don´t like condoms.
 
The church´s stance on condoms has been pretty constant, every sperm is sacred, so we have to ensure that every one of them gets the chance to fertilise an egg.
 
Without condoms gay people are pretty unlikely to have children, so can´t really see what the church has against popping on some rubber to avoid diseases.
 
The second scarier implication is that the Church doesn´t like gay people and hopes that if they have sex without condoms maybe diseases will spread more easily, hopefully wiping them out.  
 
So is this a well organised homocaust?
Or just a universalisation of the anti-latex movement?
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