state basis. It will be easy to be defeated, again and again, draining will and energy each time. Footnote A big shout out for the Facebook page Gay Marriage Rights in Australia , which has just topped two hundred thousand fans worldwide. Now fly them all to Canberra for a big gay weekend. About the author Veteran gay writer and speaker, Doug was one of the founders of the UKs pioneering GLBTI newspaper Gay News (1972) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_News , and of the second, Gay Week, and is a former Features Editor Him International. When he discovered that Australia was even more backwards on gay rights than Margaret Thatcher, he began volunteering at Melbourne's GLBTI radio station Joy 94.9 http://www.joy.org.au, and has now been broadcasting almost continually for 11 years. The award-winning Rainbow Report was the station's first all-talk news & current affairs show. One thought on " Monday Marriage Blues " Judy Newton commented on Facebook: Picketing churches just pisses off the masses and its the masses whom are needed to behind LGBTI in order for things to change. Rodney Chiang-Cruise's article in The Stirrer was dead on when he said that image is everything. Instead of picketing and protests the best way to initiate change is solid marketing. And solid marketing needs $$. Merging AME and NCSSM is a good start. Solicit the 250K plus FB members to donate with one click to the cause. Set up a Pay Pal account. Those members WANT to help & the best way