Tasmanian parliament held a surprise debate on same-sex marriage today, putting forward a bill that would recognise overseas same-sex marriages in their deed of relationships.
Similar to a civil union, this automatic recognition of overseas gay marriage does not exist anywhere else in Australia.
If it passes through the Upper House, the bill will automatically recognise same-sex [...]
We’re on a bit of a poetry kick at the moment here at Social Scapegoat, possibly as a way to disguise our seething rage. With that in mind, I present to you Tony Abbott’s WHITE Christmas:
He’s dreaming of a WHITE Christmas
Just like the ones he used to know.
Where the liberals glisten,
and children listen,
As church and [...]
It’s the first sign of the apocalypse, when religious prophets can’t turn a profit from their followers.
It’s a slippery slope Mr Xenophobe Xenophon is just beginning to skate on.
You mellow headed moderates may argue “oh, he’s just concerned for people’s welfare. Won’t somebody please think of the children!”, but do not let your fair-minded fundamentalism [...]
Surely with responsible parenting and the guidance of NSW’s abundant religious institutions we can ensure that the fear of God is thoroughly nailed *ahem*, I mean drilled into the minds of our malleable youngsters without our public schools getting involved.
Lets put aside for a minute that NSW’s public schools are still adhering to a [...]
All dogs go to heaven… Don’t they?
Not true; (this isn’t the first time the Disney Corporation has lied to us, the bastards).
But with help from these fine people your loveable pet can be spared eternal hell-side views of fire and brimstone.
What a relief to know that you can comfortably survive The Rapture, knowing your very [...]
Urban Outfitters is AWESOME and they should bring it out to Sydney (but not anywhere else, strictly exclusive). I am such a hipster!
I am never again shopping in Australia. Purely online only.
I LOVE LA and I don’t know why it has such a bad reputation with Australians.
It definitely helps to know someone, having the social [...]
On the 25th of May, the Irish television program Questions and Answers addressed responses to the Ryan Commission Report which detailed decades of known incidences of sexual abuse covered up by the Catholic Church.
Michael O’Brien, a victim of the Church and former councilor and Mayor of Wexford asked the panel whether the government ought to [...]
The Foundry’s anti-discrimination ad was made with a clear and legitimate intent to persuade Australians to reconsider their prejudices.
Though confronting, it clearly submits an argument for tolerance, not divisiveness.
A little background information: The ad below was scheduled to appear on the ABC-TV program The Gruen Transfer on May 13, 2009 but due to the shocking [...]
I would have thought that the job of New Scientist would be to objectively report on developments in, well – science!
What kind of supreme arrogance must one possess that can make one confidently proclaim that science has reached its pinnacle?
Have we learned everything there is to know about both animal and human kind that has [...]
If the definition of karma is universal retribution for an individual’s wrong doing – then Pastor Danny Nalliah of the Catch the Fire Ministries (a branch of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God) has an unpleasant fate awaiting him.
Nalliah and some other members of the ministry have said that the Victorian bush-fires and the 201 resultant [...]
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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