Shadow Footprints

I've just watched the interview of Marilyn Waring on Queer Nation. (Taped from Thursday night.) In it she talked about her submission opposing the Civil Union Bill. I particularly liked the way she started.

Marriage is a civil and political right, and civil and political rights are not negotiable. You can't have half a right. If it's a civil or political right in international law it's immediately enforceable. It's not something that progressively - you know - as it depends on what you politically can get away with - you might get there.

There's a better transcript on Scoop.

Update: Daid Young writes much more eloquently than me, in a piece titled The Liberals are Wrong to Support the Civil Union Bill. Found via David Farrar