NZ Marriage

New Zealand gave initial approval to its Civil Unions bill on Friday. It's no wonder it passed, when opponents were offering quality arguments like this:

MP Dail Jones said gay couples could not enjoy life as much as different sex couples.

How do you even respond to that? Luckily there were some examples of better reasoning from the opposing side, notably pointing out that the way the bill is presented uses semantic tricks to try to avoid a straightforward debate over gay marriage.