Homosexual unions
Gordon Cheng / 21st June 2006
/ The ones they wouldn't publish!
The Australian Federal Government recently overturned some territorial legislation concerning homosexual unions. There's no question that this topic will be a live one for a while. Here's yet another of my unpublished letters to the editor:
Dear editor,
It's possible that I've missed something in the discussion of same-sex unions in the last week, but I don't understand why a government of a state or territory believes it has the power to legislate in this matter. The union of a man and a woman predates the existence of any sort of government legislation. It follows that it doesn't lie within the scope of a government to redefine homosexual union as equivalent to marriage.
Yours sincerely,
Gordon Cheng