The media in Australia seems to be obsessed at present with the subject of gay marriage. Recently a Baptist pastor was sacked over the issue (for supporting gay marriage), and the ALP national conference voted to legalise gay marriage. This certainly is a current “hot” issue.
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, was shown several weeks ago on a national morning breakfast TV show making a comment on this issue. He noted that legalising gay marriage would fundamentally change the definition of marriage and open up marriages in Australia to all sorts of other possibilities, including polygamous marriage. This is clearly a ‘thin-edge-of-the-wedge’ argument. The morning breakfast show hosts ridiculed him for such arrant nonsense.
In last weekend’s Australian newspaper there was an article on the polygamous community in Australia: Continue reading
