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ESG&EC ASSUMES HIGH
MIDDLE GROUND
ON AUSTRALIAN
MARRIAGE LAW
POSTAL SURVEY

PROGRESSIVE STANCE ON SOCIAL ISSUES

The ESG&EC has always taken an active and progressive role when dealing with contemporary social issues.

From it's inception, the club has openly supported women's suffrage (and suffering) and if we had a constitution that allowed females to sign up, they would have the same voting rights as any other member.

We were the first organisation to welcome the High Court's 1992 Herbie Narvo Decision which dismissed claims that Henson Park was terra nullius before the Bluebags arrived.  This decision recognised Newtown rugby league peoples have rights to the land - rights that existed before the AFL landed in Sydney and still exist today in the hands of custodians Rowney and Vining.

It is therefore entirely appropriate that Messrs Love, Fatcatsson, Hemosteros and retained religious consultant Rev Tiger Wood, members of the club's Standing Committe on Social Issues, recently met in an attempt to forge a united secular position on the vexed issue of marriage equality as it is being addressed through the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.

RECOMMENDATION FOR MAYBE

In majority or unanimous opinions, the committee believed:

• that marriage should only be between a couple who could play a front and back nine i.e. a man and a woman, a woman and a woman (and they must be good-looking lesbians - no heifers in overalls) and a man and his golf clubs;
• it inconceivable that a man would want to marry another man knowing the toll marriage inflicts on the male pysche;
• it improbable that same sex marriage would lead to people marrying animals or buildings - unless they were extremely attractive and portable; and
• 1. Piers Akermann's car and ice cream analogies really sink the Yes argument for buyer's of vehicles and children with a sweet tooth who are too young to participate in the survey anyway.  WTF!!

After reviewing the "Yes" and "No" cases, the committee's unamimous recommendation is that respondents should tick the survey's "Maybe" option.

1. Piers Akermann, Daily Telegraph, 17 September.  The opinion poll on homosexual marriage is set to undermine the freedom of expression which marks our society.  Those urging a Yes vote have not even attempted to address the plethora of issues it has the capacity to unleash.  Rather than ignore the matter or claim it is too complex to consider, ask yourself whether any sane individual would buy a car without checking whether it has an engine.  Of course they would take a look and yet Australians are being asked to buy the biggest single cultural change in our society by answering simply Yes or No without being given the opportunity to peek under the bonnet.  Imagine if you asked a group of children whether they liked ice cream.  The majority would no doubt say yes.  Then tell them it was, say, rotten-fish flavour.  They would scream No.

Again, WTF!