Fairfax columnist Matt Holden was last week scathing and condescending of Margaret Court’s defence of Australia's current marriage laws.

So fundamentalists, Margaret Court’s calling of homosexual practise for what it is - from a reliable source - was bound to have her branded “homophobic” by the public.

Nowhere in Matt’s comment does he mount a tangible case for same-sex “marriage.” It is all about that fickle thing - public opinion. Whereas I and others support our present marriage laws as the best plan for the proper function of society, especially for raising of children in a stable environment, with both biological parents, if at all possible.

This campaign for the subversion of normal wedlock is a media-driven “fashion.” I am offended by Matt Holden’s reference to me and my friends (who oppose this trendy stance) as fighting a lost cause and are, somehow quaint.

We couldn’t make the vegans’ day by all promising to graze on grass, drink water and laze in the sunshine. It would guarantee us all an early grave from lack of proper nutrition (as is the norm).

Imagine – we wouldn’t need to hold down a job (like the farmers who grow vegan food), need a roof over our heads, reproduce human beings. After all, we would be fluid people in the animal kingdom. All we would have to do is fight (the animals) for our survival. 

The animals would multiply in their millions, gobble up all the grass and water. After all, there would be no need to cull them under vegan rules. Imagine such a crowded paradise. No work, no clothing, no food produced, no shelter, just competition for the survival of the fittest (the animals).

Even the vegans would go under from a lack of nutrition (no land to spare) as no one would be working the land to provide the veggies, fruit etc. to feed them.

Instead it would be needed for grasslands for the excess animals and people feeding off it. In time the people and vegans would perish. 

Were there a drought (no grass, no water), then what would the animals live on or what would these vegan activists have the world do? Just eat and drink imaginary food like children with their first tea set with their tiny tot friends? Time to get real, vegans, and leave the community alone. 

Ten score and twenty nine years ago, our forebears brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and Democracy, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created free and equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil debate with our state government, testing whether that this town, or any town so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure under forced council mergers. 

We are met on a great battlefield of words and slogans that this town of Gundagai, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from our township.  

(With apologies to Abraham Lincoln).