Pollie Tix

[dreamer_easy]

A law lecturer outlines why legalising torture would suck, such as the potential for the abuse and the not entirely irrelevant fact that it doesn't actually work.

Speaking of which, the alleged torture of an Australian citizen in Kuwait seems to have been crowded out of the news by the Schapelle Corby case.
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The two-year sentence of a gay Australian in Fiji has also failed to make the news splash that the Corby case has. The Australian Democrats have called for travel warnings for gay and lesbian travellers, who should be warned about countries with laws against private, consensual gay sex. At about the same time, the govt's travel advisory for Fiji was updated, although not as strongly as the British equivalent.

The American Psychological Association provides an overview of research on gay and lesbian parenting and its effects on children. In summary, there is no evidence to suggest that lesbians and gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of gay men or lesbians is compromised in any respect relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents. Not a single study has found children of gay or lesbian parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth.

jvowles recently posted the text of Texas Representative Senfronia Thompson's magnificent speech opposing the ban on gay parents adopting. Last week, Republicans used a political wedge issue to pull kids-- sweet little vulnerable kids-- out of the homes of loving parents and put them back in a state orphanage just because those parents are gay. That's disgusting. Today, we are telling homosexuals that just like people of my ilk, when I was a small child; they too are second class citizens.

After one year and six thousand gay weddings, the sky hasn't fallen in Massachusetts.
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James Lovelock reckons the greenhouse crisis so severe that nuclear waste would be the lesser of two evils. Let's pray this is just a terrific way of promoting his new book.

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[campion7.livejournal.com]

In summary, there is no evidence to suggest that lesbians and gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of gay men or lesbians is compromised in any respect relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents. Not a single study has found children of gay or lesbian parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth.

WOO HOO!

[matthewwolff.livejournal.com]

"The two-year sentence of a gay Australian in Fiji has also failed to make the news splash that the Corby case has. The Australian Democrats have called for travel warnings for gay and lesbian travellers, who should be warned about countries with laws against private, consensual gay sex. At about the same time, the govt's travel advisory for Fiji was updated, although not as strongly as the British equivalent."

I read the article. Wow. Just wow....