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Well Done! [message #67697]

Mon, 22 April 2013 15:20

Brody Levesque

Really getting into it

Location: US/Canada
Registered: September 2009
Messages: 733

WELLINGTON, NZ -- Amidst all the horror of the last seven days, the one shining moment for LGBT people around the world came in the form of a celebratory and impromptu song. The below video from official YouTube channel of New Zealand's Parliament continues to go viral and now has almost 1.2 million views. If you missed it earlier, watch this. Even if you didn't miss it, watch it again.

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Re: Well Done! [message #67699 is a reply to message #67697]

Tue, 23 April 2013 14:53

solsticeman

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Registered: November 2012
Messages: 109

Well Done NZ.

A vote for common sense and compassion

Here is a guy who has given the flip side of the proposal all the credit it deserves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8oKO7BAuU

I just loved the comment on the Catholic priests opposition to unnatural acts "and this from a man who has taken a vow of celibacy!" what a gem of a put-down.

Re: Well Done Us! [message #67700 is a reply to message #67699]

Tue, 23 April 2013 23:20

kiwi

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Location: New Zealand
Registered: August 2009
Messages: 317

I've avoided commenting on all this because, frankly, i'm totally sick of the whole debate & i suspect that most people are. The law has been changed to allow 'same-sex' marriages, and so it should be, but the never-ending argument is STILL going on, day after day. It is mostly the older generation that is upset - the armchair warriors are roaring! - younger people don't care much one way or the other. Today they're saying that the 'next step' will be legal polygamous and polyandrous marriages and 'them gays' will want the age of consent lowered next - we're all going to hell in a handbasket, apparently.

It's only a generation ago that mixed-race marriages were illegal in the US - nobody thinks that's so wrong now.

My 13yo Grandson said, "So now i can marry a boy if i want to? I don't want to anyway." It doesn't affect me personally, i've been married to a very special lady for a long, long time and that's not going to change.

The Member of Parliament in the video that Solticeman posted is Maurice Williamson, a crusty old conservative and a most unlikely gay hero - apparently he's been invited to appear on Ellen's TV show now. He is talking good sense, but like Malcolm Muggeridge, of blessed memory, Mr. Williamson has always been a radical who believes that 'only dead fish swim with the stream'.

Anyhow, the law change is a good and right thing and a positive move for future generations. Thanks are due to Louisa Wall, (in the multi-coloured striped top in the videos), who proposed the bill and to Kevin Hague who fought for it all the way. Sometimes we're proud to be New Zealanders.

Todays news says that France has followed suit, http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/8588784/France-approves- same-sex-marriages which is great - they're a much bigger country than we are. Hopefully, one day the Religious States of America might see the light too.

cheers

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