A recent comment in The Border Mail on the gay marriage debate was that 'nothing will change' if marriage is redefined.
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Is the 'Yes' campaign just a feel-good exercise so we can show support for our gay friends?
The experience of other nations with same-sex marriage is that freedom of expression naturally suffers – even where laws to protect it are passed. Activist judges and officials find ways around them.
Normalising LGBTI behaviour leads to the situation in England where a Jewish girls' school has failed an inspection for 'transgender education' of primary students and is being threatened with closure.
Gay activists complain that laws passed in the 1980s to prevent active homosexual men from giving blood would not have been, but for the pressure of public opinion – and blame frank media articles on the link between gay men and HIV.
As I know a boy who died of AIDS after an infected blood transfusion, I feel grateful that state governments resisted strong pressure from the LGBTI lobby. They passed public health laws that saved other patients' lives.
Could a journalist be guilty of 'hate-speech' if reporting on a similar epidemic in the future?
I'm sure the answer would be 'yes' so I'm voting no.
Louise McManus, Albury
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