All I hope is that if YES wins, they then STFU and stop attacking majority society, leave Mothers Day and Fathers Day alone, keep their queer gender theory out of schools, stop demonising anyone who disagrees with them and don't try and pretend that gays raising children is normal or desirable.
Do we think they will do that ? I don't believe it for a minute.
Can you imagine what it will be like if "yes" doesn't win?All I hope is that if YES wins, they then STFU and stop attacking majority society, leave Mothers Day and Fathers Day alone, keep their queer gender theory out of schools, stop demonising anyone who disagrees with them and don't try and pretend that gays raising children is normal or desirable.
Do we think they will do that ? I don't believe it for a minute.
Okay I have a question. Much has been made of Howard changing the marriage act in 2004 to make it man and woman.
Why then was there no ssm previous to that?
What seems absolutely nuts to me is the number of people who say they are voting No for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual question, eg voting No because they think Australia is to pc, that's the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
What's dumb about it? I'm guessing you are too young to remember the days before PC and various freedoms lost since then.
Thin end of the wedge my son, thin end of the wedge
Because the question is about gay marriage, not whether you want more pc or not.
It's dumb because if you are asked a genuine question, you should answer the question, not some other question you made up in your head.
They want your opinion on ssm, not your opinion on pc, they will have no idea about the question in your head you made up.
I would never incinerate that! I wouldn't even dare to insinuate it either!This stirs you up VC.
Most of us realize its not that simple.
Dumbing it down with words on a PC
doesn't turn us blind.
And if your Incinerating that I'm Dumb Ill Sue your Arse off.
I hope you get your stock picks right ?Think its a HOT topic!
I'm a member of the ADN
National Dyslexics Association.
There will be trouble further down the road no matter who wins.No matter which way this vote goes, I fail to see any possibility of a win for our society.
And if your Incinerating that I'm Dumb Ill Sue your Arse off.
Have we had a lot of latecomers to the "no" party,
I did notice after voting that there is an option to change vote.Hey! I just noticed that the "yes" vote in the poll on this thread has dipped below 60%.
Have we had a lot of latecomers to the "no" party, or are members reversing their "yes" votes?
During the past 24 hours, I have read a number of posts by watchdog11 in other threads within this forum , so please, let's not allow our personal prejudices to obscure our view of actual facts!Yes, such as watchdog, who only joined yesterday and who's only 12 posts all appear to be a the gay marriage thing.
and I suspect this forum probably isn't the only one he joined recently to spread his opinion, and after this vote, will probably won't hear from him again.
What seems absolutely nuts to me is the number of people who say they are voting No for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual question, eg voting No because they think Australia is to pc, that's the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Almost half of all Australians eligible to take part in the same-sex marriage postal survey will receive ballots before the weekend.
More than four million forms have been delivered and millions more are expected to land in letterboxes on Friday, a Senate inquiry has been told.
"We're slightly ahead of our schedule for dispatch of remaining forms, so that all means we're in very good shapes to all eligible Australians by September 25," Deputy Australian Statistician Jonathon Palmer said.
Mr Palmer expects all forms to be sent out by September 21.
Initial mailouts were targeted at rural and remote communities and radio ads for the postal survey are running in seven different indigenous languages.
Roughly 120,000 silent electors are expected to receive their ballot papers next week.
However overseas voters will not receive online codes to take part in the survey until September 25.
"We're not bringing that option online yet," Mr Palmer told senators.
People will not be notified if their returned forms are discarded because they are damaged, marked unclearly or deemed a duplicate.
"Their response is de-identified so there's no receipt or communication to people if there response isn't going to be processed," Mr Palmer said.
External observers - unlike scrutineers used in election campaigns - will be barred from looking at every survey form.
"We don't want anyone in the process to be in a position to estimate the result ... or be seen to be credible in their estimation of the result," Mr Palmer said.
"We'll keep the statistics under strict embargo and very few people - I'm talking less than a handful - will know the result before it's published."
Mr Palmer referred some incidents of alleged fraud, such as the sale of ballot papers on eBay, to federal police on Thursday.
He hopes to discuss with the AFP on Friday a policy for how the two agencies will work together on allegations.
More than 87,000 calls have been made to a hotline set up to assist Australians with queries about the postal survey, with four per cent listed as complaints.
One per cent were classified as a compliment.
"We'd like that number to be higher," Mr Palmer conceded jokingly.
The bureau has had to reassign staff working on the next Census project in 2021 to the survey.
So far the ABS has spent $63.5 million on the ballot.
So far 61 survey forms have been reissued to replaced spoilt ones - including those with drawings by small children.
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