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Why vs Why: Gay Marriage
Why vs Gay Marriage
“I think it’s a terrific idea…It’s a series of small but perfectly formed books…it’s a very civil little series of books… a good way of presenting these sort of issues.”
- James Valentine, ABC
"...a balanced approach to controversial issues..."
- Carlene Ellwood, The Sunday Tasmanian
"...the perfect physical embodiment of the gay marriage debate..."
-Andy Noonan, Sydney Star Observer
THE YES/NO CASE FOR THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE
The two positions are presented in an easy to read 2-books-in-1 format. Both authors discuss the seven key reasons why we should say yes/no to Gay Marriage in Australia and further investigate the evidence behind each of these reasons through their seven chapters. Importantly, this book leaves no issue hanging. On top of their seven key arguments, each author gives a punchy rebuttal to their opponent’s specific arguments.
Bill Muehlenberg , author of In Defence of the Family, maintains his anti-gay marriage position and delivers seven strongly argued reasons why we should not allow for same-sex marriage along with a rebuttal to the arguments and rebuttal by gay human rights campaigner Rodney Croome AM .
Croome uses the forum to emphasise the lack of equality, legal disadvantages and human injustice that the gay community endures in his view, due to the current restrictions around same sex marriage.
at a time of growing social isolation, exclusion and alienation, when many people yearn to find a genuine connection with others, it seems perverse that we continue to exclude same-sex couples and their families from such a universal and fundamental institution of social connection as marriage.
Gay marriage negates what marriage actually is. Placing same sex marriage on the legal agenda is a ploy by activists to divert the public’s attention from homosexual behavior, and that the ‘lack of civil rights’ argument is a false one. Except for the title ‘marriage’, homosexual couples now have basically every single right that heterosexual married couples have.
Why Why vs Why?
The Why vs Why™ series aims simply to foster debate and informed discussion by equipping the public with all the key issues and answers thrashed out by opposing expert advocates, but presented by in an impartial way. Each book is an easy-to-read, pocket-sized presentation of everything the public needs to know about big issues. The Why vs Why™ is a useful social tool to inform a wide audience.
Are you interested in hearing both sides of the big issues ? Why not check out the rest of the Why vs Why series?
Why vs Big Australia
Why vs Nuclear Power
“I think it’s a terrific idea…It’s a series of small but perfectly formed books…it’s a very civil little series of books… a good way of presenting these sort of issues.”
- James Valentine, ABC
"...a balanced approach to controversial issues..."
- Carlene Ellwood, The Sunday Tasmanian
"...the perfect physical embodiment of the gay marriage debate..."
-Andy Noonan, Sydney Star Observer
THE YES/NO CASE FOR THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE
The two positions are presented in an easy to read 2-books-in-1 format. Both authors discuss the seven key reasons why we should say yes/no to Gay Marriage in Australia and further investigate the evidence behind each of these reasons through their seven chapters. Importantly, this book leaves no issue hanging. On top of their seven key arguments, each author gives a punchy rebuttal to their opponent’s specific arguments.
Bill Muehlenberg , author of In Defence of the Family, maintains his anti-gay marriage position and delivers seven strongly argued reasons why we should not allow for same-sex marriage along with a rebuttal to the arguments and rebuttal by gay human rights campaigner Rodney Croome AM .
Croome uses the forum to emphasise the lack of equality, legal disadvantages and human injustice that the gay community endures in his view, due to the current restrictions around same sex marriage.
at a time of growing social isolation, exclusion and alienation, when many people yearn to find a genuine connection with others, it seems perverse that we continue to exclude same-sex couples and their families from such a universal and fundamental institution of social connection as marriage.
Gay marriage negates what marriage actually is. Placing same sex marriage on the legal agenda is a ploy by activists to divert the public’s attention from homosexual behavior, and that the ‘lack of civil rights’ argument is a false one. Except for the title ‘marriage’, homosexual couples now have basically every single right that heterosexual married couples have.
Why Why vs Why?
The Why vs Why™ series aims simply to foster debate and informed discussion by equipping the public with all the key issues and answers thrashed out by opposing expert advocates, but presented by in an impartial way. Each book is an easy-to-read, pocket-sized presentation of everything the public needs to know about big issues. The Why vs Why™ is a useful social tool to inform a wide audience.
Are you interested in hearing both sides of the big issues ? Why not check out the rest of the Why vs Why series?
Why vs Big Australia
Why vs Nuclear Power
103 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 3, 2010
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About the author
Rodney Croome
4 books2 followersRodney Peter Croome AM is an Australian LGBT rights activist and academic. Croome currently serves as the spokesperson for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group, National Convenor of Australian Marriage Equality and one of the founders of the Australian Coalition for Equality (ACE).
Croome grew up on a dairy farm in Tasmania's North West and studied European History at the University of Tasmania. He was the founding president and long-term board member of the Tasmanian LGBT support organisation, 'Working It Out' as well as serving on various other similar organisations and had been in a leading role in the establishing challenging-homophobia education in Tasmanian state schools and in the Tasmanian Police, as well as the instituting of anti-discrimination laws in Tasmania.
He also fronted the successful campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, which until 1 May 1997 was a criminal offence punishable by up to 25 years in jail. That campaign saw Tasmanian activists take their case to the United Nations (Toonen v Australia), the Federal Government and the High Court.
In 1997 in the case of Croome v Tasmania, Croome applied to the High Court of Australia for a ruling as to whether the Tasmanian laws were inconsistent with the Federal Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act (1994). The Tasmanian Government repealed the relevant Criminal Code provisions after failing in its attempts to have the matter struck out.
For his extensive work in this area he was made the inaugural recipient of the Tasmanian Humanitarian of the Year Award and awarded the Chris Carter Memorial Award for contributions to the gay and lesbian community by the Australian Democrats in 1991.
In 1994, he was shortlisted for Australian of the Year. In January 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for "service and extensive contribution to gay and lesbian law reform" and in June 2003 he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the community as a human rights advocate, particularly through promoting tolerance and understanding of the human rights of gay and lesbian people".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_C...
Croome grew up on a dairy farm in Tasmania's North West and studied European History at the University of Tasmania. He was the founding president and long-term board member of the Tasmanian LGBT support organisation, 'Working It Out' as well as serving on various other similar organisations and had been in a leading role in the establishing challenging-homophobia education in Tasmanian state schools and in the Tasmanian Police, as well as the instituting of anti-discrimination laws in Tasmania.
He also fronted the successful campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, which until 1 May 1997 was a criminal offence punishable by up to 25 years in jail. That campaign saw Tasmanian activists take their case to the United Nations (Toonen v Australia), the Federal Government and the High Court.
In 1997 in the case of Croome v Tasmania, Croome applied to the High Court of Australia for a ruling as to whether the Tasmanian laws were inconsistent with the Federal Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act (1994). The Tasmanian Government repealed the relevant Criminal Code provisions after failing in its attempts to have the matter struck out.
For his extensive work in this area he was made the inaugural recipient of the Tasmanian Humanitarian of the Year Award and awarded the Chris Carter Memorial Award for contributions to the gay and lesbian community by the Australian Democrats in 1991.
In 1994, he was shortlisted for Australian of the Year. In January 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for "service and extensive contribution to gay and lesbian law reform" and in June 2003 he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the community as a human rights advocate, particularly through promoting tolerance and understanding of the human rights of gay and lesbian people".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_C...
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