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Couples Watch Hardcore Porn Together

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These 5 couples agreed to watch porn together on camera. It got weird.

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Study Finds Discrimination High Against Lesbian, Gay And Bisexual People In Suburbs

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The disadvantages faced by LGB suburb dwellers were similar to those in rural areas.

New research has found similar levels of discrimination and social isolation among lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) Australians living in outer-city suburbs and those living in rural and remote areas.

New research has found similar levels of discrimination and social isolation among lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) Australians living in outer-city suburbs and those living in rural and remote areas.

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Led by James Morandini, a PhD candidate from the School of Psychology at Sydney University, the study was published in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.

It surveyed 1306 LGB people living across Australia and is the first nationwide survey to compare the experiences of rural LGB people with those from the city.

"Previous research has found lesbian, gay and bisexual people in remote and rural areas experience higher levels of disadvantage than their city counterparts, but the finding for people in outer-city areas was unexpected," Morandini said.

He offered a tentative explanation for unexpected findings, saying factors such as low socio-economic backgrounds are higher in some outer metropolitan areas and "may contribute to a more stigmatising environment".

The survey found LGB Australians from outer-city and rural and remote areas experienced similar levels of "minority stress", including things like internalised homophobia and concealment of sexuality from friends. Both groups also lacked the social support enjoyed by their urban contemporaries.

In the study, an outer metropolitan area was defined as a location outside a 10km radius from the general post office of the inner-city.

Isaac*, 21, grew up in Parramatta in Sydney’s west, where he came out as gay at age 14. He later moved to the inner-city to study.

Isaac*, 21, grew up in Parramatta in Sydney’s west, where he came out as gay at age 14. He later moved to the inner-city to study.

Lennox Bridge in Parramatta.

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"[I] felt like a circus novelty or the school freak although I was never physically bullied," Isaac said. "But in the city I did not feel defined by my sexuality in that way. I felt like there was such diversity culturally, economically, etc, that it was the commonalities that defined us, not our differences."

The study suggested LGB people in the suburbs might face the same disadvantages as rural LGB people, while lacking the close-knit sense of community that often accompanies rural living.

"A common sentiment from people in outer metro areas is 'I don't see or know about anyone else like me in my area or any services for people like me and I wouldn't feel comfortable being out to people in my neighbourhood, which is pretty conservative'," said Morandini.

This feeling rang true for Isaac, who felt equally estranged from the inner-city LGB community and from Parramatta growing up.

"Being on the border of the inner and outer-city you feel very close and as if you could interact with the inner city gay community but you are not from there, not part of that clique," he said. "And at the same time there is nobody from where I grew up that I identified with, there was nothing I felt a part of."


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Can You Guess The '00s Song From A Video Screencap?

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Drop your answers like it’s hot.

This Little Girl Is Being 'Tortured' By The Government

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When asked for her name, she just wrote a number.

This five-year-old girl is suffering inside an Australian detention centre.

This five-year-old girl is suffering inside an Australian detention centre.

The Iranian asylum seeker is being held with her family at the Wickham detention centre in Darwin, where she is suffering post traumatic stress disorder, has attempted self-harm and is displaying sexualised behaviour, according to Save The Children.

The girl and her family were moved to the mainland after a year on Nauru, but they may soon be moved back to the off-shore detention centre.

This morning, the girl's father told the ABC that his daughter had "begged" to be kept away from Nauru.

"Yes, she was under impression that we would be also taken to the Nauru because she could hear them, she could hear the voices from outside and was begging me to stop them from taking us back to Nauru," he said.

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The girl's lawyer says sending her back would greatly endanger her health.

The girl's lawyer says sending her back would greatly endanger her health.

"She herself is independently scared and her parents are more terrified," John Lawrence told BuzzFeed News. "She’s suffering from PTSD and severe anxiety at the prospect of the department sending her back to Nauru."

Mr Lawrence met the little girl last week, and said it's clear she is suffering.

"On first appearances she seemed like a normal, regular, lovely girl," he said. "When I asked for her name, she wrote her boat number, which is the department’s way of identifying anyone - man, woman or child - who comes by boat. That confirmed to me that the entire thing is inappropriate.

"She then asked to draw something else. She depicted the lips of a figure sewn up, which is something she’s seen on Nauru.

Mr Lawrence said he's been in contact with the Department of Immigration, but has not received a response.

"We’ve requested, without legal action because we think it’s obscene needing to go to the law for this, that she be immediately released into the community with her parents to live with her parents and other relatives in the community," he said.

"If they don’t do the right thing, we’ll file an injunction against the minister to prevent her from being returned to Nauru, and to order that she be released into the community."

"The evidence that I've got [of her condition] is all Immigration Department material. Several high ranking doctors, psychologists and advisors have examined the girl because of the concerns they have about her condition. [The Minister] has a duty of care. She’s been assessed as being seriously mentally ill. She should be released forthwith."

"We’re hopeful the minister will do the right thing," he said.

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Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says the little girl is being "tortured."

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says the little girl is being "tortured."

In a post on her website, Senator Hanson-Young has called on the immigration minister Peter Dutton to stop the girl's return to Nauru.

"The Minister for Immigration is knowingly tormenting this child by keeping her in detention and threatening to return her to Nauru," she says.

"Medical experts have clearly advised that the girls illness is associated with conditions on Nauru. Sending her back there will cause further harm."

This little girl has been exposed to horrific scenes inside the Nauru detention camp and has been severely traumatised as a result. She must not be sent back."

This morning, the Senator went a step further, claiming the girl was being tortured.

"The minister is torturing this little child and I don't use those words lightly. We know that the detention has caused these issues for her. Her mental health has deteriorated," she told the ABC.

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Peter Dutton was not pleased.

Peter Dutton was not pleased.

"That's a repugnant statement, even beneath Sarah Hanson-Young, particularly given that 1,200 people died at sea while the Greens were in government with Labor," Mr Dutton said in a statement.

In March, a review commissioned by former immigration minister Scott Morrison found evidence of rape, child sexual assault and the trading of drugs by guards for sexual favours from detainees on Nauru.

The Department of Immigration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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eBay Has A Problem: It's About To Lose Its Biggest Business

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In results announced today, the company’s PayPal unit, which includes Venmo, reported larger revenues than the core auctions business, for the first time in eBay’s history.

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While eBay managed to beat Wall Street's expectations for the first quarter of this year, its auctions business continued to lose ground to its payments business. And that's a problem for eBay, because the 20-year-old e-commerce pioneer will soon be split in two, with the faster-growing PayPal unit becoming a separate company.

That means eBay's core auctions business will have to stand on its own, even though its revenues shrunk to $2.07 billion during the quarter, down 4% from the same period last year. The payments unit, including PayPal and Venmo, had revenue of $2.11 billion, up 14%. It was the first quarter the payments business pulled in more revenue than the auctions site.

The company said the rising value of the U.S. dollar hammered the total amount of commerce done over its marketplace in dollar terms, saying it declined 2% to $20.2 billion, down 4% overseas and up 2% in the U.S. Stripping out the effects of the stronger dollar, eBay said that the total amount transacted in its marketplace would have gone up 5%. The total volume of payments through PayPal, on the other hand, grew 18% to $61 billion in the first quarter of this year.

Devin Wenig, the head of eBay marketplaces, said on a call with analysts that the division's results were "encouraging" considering the poor year it had in 2014, when it was hammered by a security breach and lower search traffic thanks to a punishment from Google for certain search engine optimization tactics.

"We are certainly not ready to declare a victory over last year's SEO and password reset challenges, but we are making progress. SEO-generated traffic is still impacting growth," Wenig said.

"We had a strong first quarter, with eBay and PayPal off to a good start for the full year," eBay Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe said in a statement. "I feel very good about the performance of our teams."

Donahoe also said that the "smooth separation" of the two would happen in the third quarter of this year. "We are deeply committed to setting up eBay and PayPal to succeed and to deliver sustainable value to our shareholders," he said.

Hugh Jackman's Alan Rickman Impression Is Pretty Darn Funny

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Although it’s probably not real.

Hugh Jackman has uploaded this video of him "impersonating" Alan Rickman, and, regardless of its authenticity - it's pretty good.

The quote used is from Harry Potter which means Hugh Jackman probably likes that movie? IDK.

People think it's real / not real but really who cares because Jacko can do this:

People think it's real / not real but really who cares because Jacko can do this:

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Can You Tell Which Marvel Actor This Is From His Unwaxed Chest?

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PETITION TO LET ALL OF THEM GROW THEIR HAIR BACK OUT.

This "Missing Dollar" Riddle Will Hurt Your Brain


Facebook Isn't An App, It's A Colossal Social Conglomerate

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The company is getting huge in areas outside its core social network. Each day its apps are responsible for 45 billion messages, and 4 billion video views.

Facebook is a social network. And a messaging service. And a collaboration tool. And a video player. And a phone.

The company, which has long described itself as a cluster of various apps related to social interaction, released a set of numbers of Wednesday that show just how dominant it is becoming in these new areas.

More than a social network, Facebook now looks like a communication conglomerate, and one that is quickly dominating more aspects of our daily lives.

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25 Times Beyoncé Unknowingly Captured Life In India

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Maharani Bey.

On eating more than three samosas in one sitting:

On eating more than three samosas in one sitting:

Columbia

On relatives who see you after years and say, "You've become so big!":

On relatives who see you after years and say, "You've become so big!":

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On the frequency with which Indian facial hair needs to be ripped out:

On the frequency with which Indian facial hair needs to be ripped out:

Columbia

On your whole extended family and even strangers having an opinion on everything you do:

On your whole extended family and even strangers having an opinion on everything you do:

Columbia


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Facts About World Police

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Roller blades, capes, and camels.

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What Type Of 2 Chainz Are You?

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The TRUUUUest quiz out there.

A Scientist Sang "If I Only Had A Brain" In An MRI Scanner Because SCIENCE

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Science is the coolest.

Using a new technique that is 10x faster than average MRI scanners, researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology show how the muscles in our neck, jaw, tongue, and lips work together to create sound in this fascinating video.

Assistant professor in speech and hearing science and Beckman Institute faculty member Aaron Johnson demonstrates the real-time imaging capabilities while singing "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz.

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SCIENCE!!!

SCIENCE!!!

Read more about this incredible technology here.

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Meet The Man Determined To Prevent Marriage Equality In Australia

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Lyle Shelton isn't one of those religious fundamentalists you see standing at the pulpit, his hands clenched in fists of rage, spewing invective about how we're all going to hell in a handbasket.

Sitting with BuzzFeed News in a busy Sydney café on a sunny afternoon, the head of the Australian Christian Lobby is simply preaching a message of love, tolerance, and respect. He's not a hater, he insists, just a good Christian and a voice for the voiceless.

His critics, however, say his message is one of intolerance and bigotry, which does untold damage to young LGBT Australians.

One thing that's not in dispute is that Lyle Shelton is widely considered one of the biggest roadblocks to marriage equality in Australia.

How has this small-time politician from country Queensland stopped a social movement that has become unstoppable in every other English-speaking nation in the world?

Depending on whom you ask, Lyle Shelton is either a hardworking warrior for social justice who eschews power and fame for the gritty work of getting things done, or he's a cunning political operator with a direct line into the halls of power, which allows him to implement his agenda.

The man himself says he's just a humble servant of the Lord, whose faith drives him to work for the change he believes in even if he knows it's a losing effort.

"One of my Roman Catholic friends said to me if I had a patron saint, it would be Saint Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes," he tells BuzzFeed News.

For Shelton, the call to God came early in his life. As the son of a Pentecostal pastor in deeply religious Toowoomba, Queensland, faith has always been a part of his life.

His father, Ian Shelton, was a founder of the Toowoomba City Church, which has its roots in the Logos Foundation, a reconstructionist, dominionist, charismatic church that was prevalent in the '70s and '80s.

The foundation's founder, Howard Carter, set up shop in Toowoomba, but when he was found to be an adulterer in the late '80s he was forced out. Shelton's father took over and the church has thrived ever since.

"We embraced faith very early," Lyle says. "My dad was a pastor in the local church. It was a very positive experience from my point of view. Obviously, everybody's got to embrace their faith from an early age, and that's something I did."

After leaving Queensland for a stint in journalism as a young man, mainly covering industry politics in regional Victoria, Shelton returned to Toowoomba in the late '90s to work in his father's church, but it wasn't long before the call to power came.

"I suppose I became interested in pro-life issues and also the intersection of Christianity and public policy in my teenage years and that's something that grew from the pro-life cause initially," he says.

He was elected to Toowoomba council in 2000 and made a name for himself fighting what he saw as immorality. In 2005 Lyle took a bus with 50 placard-carrying locals to the state parliament in Brisbane, protesting the adult entertainment industry and calling on the government to prevent the expansion of the live sex trade.

After a failed run for state office as a National in the 2006 Queensland election, Shelton soon found himself working at the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).

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The ACL is widely considered one of the most powerful lobby groups in Australia, able to sway votes and control outcomes on the issues it holds dear.

Speaking at the ACL's annual conference has become a rite of passage for Australia's political aspirants. John Howard, Kevin Rudd, and Tony Abbott have all addressed the ACL.

In 2012, then-Prime Minister and avowed atheist Julia Gillard was due to address the ACL before she cancelled on them after comments from the lobby's then-leader, Jim Wallace. (Wallace compared the health effects of being gay to those of smoking.)

In 2014, Labor Opposition Leader Bill Shorten addressed the conference to stand up for LGBT rights and for same-sex marriage: "When I see people hiding behind the bible to insult and demonise people on the basis of who they love, I cannot stay silent," said Shorten. "I do not agree."

For a decade now, the lobby has focused much of its attention on the battle to stop same-sex marriage in Australia. It's a battle they've won so far, and there's no sign of that changing any time soon.

The ACL's power lies not just in its ability to mobilise a large army of supporters, who bombard MPs and senators with phone calls and automatically generated emails, but also in its direct lines to powerful MPs.

"Lyle's never been able to put forward a religious case against same-sex marriage," says Alex Greenwich, the independent state MP for Sydney and former head of Australians for Marriage Equality (AME).

"He strikes me as more of a political operator than someone who is driven by faith. He seems to enjoy the wheeling and dealing of power.

"He makes sure he's close to people like [Liberal conservatives] Eric Abetz and Kevin Andrews, making sure he's close to the right wing of the Liberal party."

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George Christensen, the conservative National MP for the Queensland seat of Dawson who has known Shelton since their days together in local government, doesn't share Greenwich's assessment.

"Lyle has a very genuine concern for people," Christensen says. "That's the reality. You come across some people in this game who are there for politics, the headlines and the controversy. Lyle is not. He's doing the job genuinely because he has a strong belief in humanity."

The man himself says he is motivated purely by his faith.

"It's social justice that especially drives me. Especially for those who can't speak for themselves. Which is obviously the poor and the marginalised. But also children who are voiceless in various debates," he says.

What then of the marginalised LGBT youth in Australia, who according to a 2013 report from mental health initiative beyondblue have the highest rates of suicide of any population in Australia?

The beyondblue report stated that "discrimination and exclusion are the key causal factors of LGBT mental ill-health and suicidality," but Shelton is adamant his organisation strives to avoid that sort of discrimination.

Beyond comparing being gay to smoking, former ACL leader Jim Wallace was lambasted in 2012 when he said a gay marriage campaign would "do great credit to Joseph Goebbels" during a televised debate with the Jewish gay rights campaigner Dr Kerryn Phelps.

On Anzac Day 2011 Wallace was forced to apologise for and delete a tweet that read, "Just hope that as we remember Servicemen and women today we remember the Australia they fought for - wasn't gay marriage and Islamic!"

Shelton is less combative than his predecessor, but he also drew the ire of the LGBT community when he said Australia is at risk of creating a new Stolen Generation of children who are raised in nontraditional households. It's a comparison he stands by.

"I think the effect on children is the same, yes. You're removing a child from its parents. The context of that comment was [former prime minister] Kevin Rudd's backflip [to supporting same-sex marriage]. This was the man who quite rightly apologised to the Stolen Generation. But how can you say on the one hand that it's wrong to remove children, then create public policy which does the same thing? Those are the dots I was trying to connect," he says.

"I'm sure it's very difficult [for same-sex parents to hear this]. I don't doubt their love for their children at all. I do not bring that into question. But the fact is, every child in a same-sex family structure has been taken from its biological mother or father. Now we have to ask as a society, is that right to do that? That doesn't deny anyone's ability to love, or the genuineness of that love."

Shelton is adamant that he's not interested in demonising queer Australians, and seems particularly upset by the idea that the ACL incites hatred.

"That grieves me any time I hear that," he says. "I don't hate anyone. And I feel like just because you have a disagreement with someone, instead of engaging in an argument, you get labelled a hater and a bigot. That distresses me greatly because I don't hate anyone," he says.

"There's times when I could have chosen my words better," he admits. "But in 15 years of the ACL being on the scene, and particularly in the last 10 or 11 years that this has been an issue, If they're the only two examples of hatefulness, we've done pretty well."

Shelton is also adamant that the bile flows both ways.

"If you look at some of the things that have been said about us," he says. "Look at the Hyatt's website when they closed down our conference." (In 2014, progressive activists forced the conservative World Congress of Families to change venues several times.) "The things we were called there I couldn't repeat, but it was absolute vitriol. It was aimed at driving us out of the debate. It was aimed at shutting us down. So I think we've done pretty well. Have we always been perfect? No."

Shelton's colleague at the Australian Christian Lobby, its Queensland director Wendy Francis, also defends him.

"Lyle really is very passionate about people's rights. He was instrumental in repealing dozens of federal laws that discriminated against homosexuals." (The Rudd/Gillard government repealed dozens of laws that discriminated against LGBT Australians, a move the ACL supported.) "So you can't say it comes from a place of hate. Lyle doesn't have a vendetta. He believes in equality strongly," Francis says.

But Alex Greenwich finds Shelton's protestations difficult to believe.

"Lyle is very rational and intelligent. I don't see how a rational, intelligent person couldn't see that these words, this demonising of LGBT people, is anything but hurtful to the LGBT community," he says.

"The ACL sees its audience as a handful of politicians. They're forgetting that their advertisements and their words are being seen by the wider community and, importantly, by young LGBT people. When people see an ad saying that there's something wrong with you, that is of course going to have an impact," Greenwich says.

It's not just queer people who bear the brunt of the ACL's words. The real targets of Christian lobby campaigns are the men and women in Canberra who will vote for reform.

In late March, a bill from Independent Senator David Leyonhjelm to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia was brought forward for debate. It would mean, finally, that prime minister Tony Abbott's Liberal party room would need to decide whether it would allow a conscience vote on the issue.

Lobbyists on both sides of the argument went into overdrive, beseeching their supporters to email MPs and lobby for or against a free vote for the Liberals.

In the end, the furious activity was for naught. Senator Leyonhjelm pulled the bill when it became clear it would not pass. That didn't stop the ACL from bragging that it had saved the day.

"With advocates for redefining marriage aggressively lobbying Liberal MPs and senators ahead of this morning's party room meeting, more than 20,000 Australians responded by emailing Liberal parliamentarians urging them to continue to vote as one," the ACL said in a press release under the heading "Liberal party room holds the line on marriage".

In truth, the issue never came up for discussion.

(Australians for Marriage Equality also bragged that 11 Liberal MPs had switched to supporting same-sex marriage, a claim that seems unlikely in retrospect.)

The man who introduced the bill says the email campaigns were pointless.

"I was encouraged to bring on the debate in the Senate, so I arranged for that Thursday for my bill to be debated," Senator Leyonhjelm told BuzzFeed News.

"I wasn't intending to bring it to a vote, but I was told [by Liberal same-sex marriage supporters] that the Liberal party room wouldn't consider the issue of a conscience vote until it was listed for debate.

"I was told by some Liberal insiders that it would prompt a discussion in the party room and bring the conscience vote issue to a head. I don't think [the email campaign] had the slightest bit of impact on the issue not being raised in the party room. The guys who encouraged me just didn't have their act together."

But the phone and email campaigns certainly do get MPs' attention.

"The quantity of emails is astounding," Leyonhjelm says. "The Liberal senators complained that they got thousands of emails in the ensuing few days from the Monday, when it became known that I was intending to list my bill for debate on the Thursday.

"Two of my advisers were receiving the calls. Both of them are female. Some of the calls were very offensive to them. My office manager in Sydney was actually a bit distressed about it. Some of them were quite foul. We had quite a number of fairly gross emails."

George Christensen agrees: "We just get absolutely hammered with thousands from all over Australia. I would guess 99% of them are from outside the electorate."

And so, one has to ask, if the email campaigns are unlikely to sway any MPs' votes, should a Christian lobby really be spending so much time talking about same-sex marriage?

A BuzzFeed News analysis of the ACL's national media releases over the last two years shows it spends more time talking about same-sex marriage than any other issue.

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In two years they've sent out 18 national media releases on same-sex marriage, compared to just one on indigenous issues, two on the poor, disadvantaged, and homeless, and five on gambling reform.

Only the issue of refugees comes close with 10 national releases in the past 24 months.


"The ACL is pitching to a constituency who feel very strongly about this, and they exercise a lot of influence with that constituency," says federal Labor MP and marriage equality supporter Tim Watts.

"The churches in my electorate come to me with a much broader range of issues. They want to talk to me about asylum seekers and income equality. The ACL is not representative of the feedback I receive from religious groups in my electorate."

Shelton says he'd much rather be talking about the refugee crisis emanating from the Middle East than same-sex marriage in Australia.

"We aren't the ones who have tried 15 times to change the law. We'd have no interest in this if it wasn't for others driving this debate politically," he says.

"I'd rather discuss the 2 million refugees in Lebanon who have been pushed out because of Islamic State and the Syrian civil war, and the people who are internally displaced in northern Iraq. Those are the big issues. Australia's hopeless response in increasing our humanitarian intake, in helping not only Christians but Yazidis and Muslims. That to me is a far bigger issue," he says.

As Shelton chats to BuzzFeed News, though, it's clear that his passions very much lie with the same-sex marriage debate.

For Shelton, the issue comes down to the rights of children, and whether, in his words, all kids have the right to a mum and dad wherever possible.

"No political party should legislate for a family structure that requires a child to miss out on a mother and a father," he says.

There are around 33,000 same-sex oriented families in Australia. In many cases, the children in these families are from previous heterosexual unions. In other cases the kids may come from adoption or IVF. According to most reports, these kids are doing just fine, but Shelton doesn't accept that the horse has bolted on the issue of same-sex parenting.

"Maybe perhaps the horse has partially bolted and perhaps, to some degree, the culture. But we've always got to argue for those who can't speak for themselves and that is children."

A 2014 study by the University of Melbourne found that children raised in same-sex families fare as well as, if not better than, kids from more traditional homes, but Shelton isn't convinced that the issue of same-sex parenting has been settled. (He dismisses the study's self-selected, small sample size.)

For him, same-sex marriage and same-sex parenting are inextricably linked, and he cannot support either concept.

"I think the debate has been a very immature debate," he says. "It's been focused on the rights of adults. Well that's one aspect of the debate. We've been trying our best to raise people to thinking that there are consequences for this. That it does require a child to miss out on their biological mother and father and that's something that civil society shouldn't do."

"We want to say that as a civil society we believe it is just for children to have every opportunity to be raised by their biological mother and father wherever possible. And where it's not possible, we want to restore something that's as close to what they would have through natural causes as possible, because gender does matter to the raising of a child. And there's plenty of social science to prove that. Social sciences do not dispute that children do best on virtually every measure when raised by their biological mother and father. That's not in dispute."

To back his cause Shelton cites a controversial 2012 study by US academic Mark Regnerus. The Regnerus study found that the children of gay and lesbian parents had negative outcomes in significantly more categories than kids from more traditional families.

9 Charts That Will Help You Pair Your Cheese And Wine Perfectly

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These cheesy charts are anything but cheesy!

This one, which will be perfect for your next movie night.

This one, which will be perfect for your next movie night.

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This one, which is perfect for entertaining wine and beer drinkers.

This one, which is perfect for entertaining wine and beer drinkers.

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This one, which is good to keep on your phone as a handy reference.

This one, which is good to keep on your phone as a handy reference.

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This one, which is so beautiful you'll want to frame it.

This one, which is so beautiful you'll want to frame it.

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Your Puppy Loves You Like A Baby Loves Its Mother

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It’s no longer wishful thinking, now it’s ~science.~

Good news! Our puppies really really do love us!

Good news! Our puppies really really do love us!

It's all here in this study, which says that when a dog looks into its owner's eyes, it gets the same feelings of love that a baby does for its mother.

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It's thanks to a chemical called oxytocin, also known as the "love hormone."

It's thanks to a chemical called oxytocin, also known as the "love hormone."

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Oxytocin is released into the bloodstream after a mother gives birth and during breastfeeding.

Oxytocin is released into the bloodstream after a mother gives birth and during breastfeeding.

It's also the same feeling you get when you look into a person's eyes and you're in loooooooove.

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And guess what?! Our puppies feel it too when they look into our eyes.

And guess what?! Our puppies feel it too when they look into our eyes.

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Full-Page Ad Denying Armenian Genocide Rebuked On Eve Of 100th Commemoration

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The ad, which ran on the back page of The Washington Post on Thursday, says there is no “academic consensus” that the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians should be labeled genocide.

The mass killings are considered by many — including most recently, the pope — to be the first genocide of the 20th century. The deaths occurred during a campaign carried out by the Ottoman Turks that included mass executions and so-called death marches through the Syrian desert that drove many to starvation.

But on Thursday, the Turkish American Steering Committee (TASC) — an organization that formed to dissuade Congress and the White House from officially recognizing the Armenian genocide — ran a full-page ad in The Post claiming there was "no academic consensus" on how to label the mass killings.

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The open letter, addressed to President Obama and the U.S. Congress, goes on to state that "a substantial number" of scholars have declined to use the genocide label, "instead finding a multitude of causes of suffering with widely varying outcomes" for the Ottoman Armenians.

Turkey has long argued that activists have seized on the calamity surrounding the end of World War I to inflate the number of Armenians killed and the circumstances of their deaths.

"One hundred years ago, a brutal war started neither by Turks nor Armenians cost the Ottoman Armenians, the Ottoman Turks and many other groups to dearly," the letter states.

The TASC ad, which it also posted on Facebook, goes on to call for a "peace and solidarity walk" Friday starting at the White House and ending at the Turkish embassy.

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A Straight Guy Asked His Gay Friend To Prom And It's The Cutest Thing Ever

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#PromposalGoals.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's officially prom season.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's officially prom season.

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You know what that means: Teens across the country are dusting off their tuxes and dresses, and prepping their most creative ways to ask their friends to prom.

You know what that means: Teens across the country are dusting off their tuxes and dresses, and prepping their most creative ways to ask their friends to prom.

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Chris Evans And Jeremy Renner Called Black Widow A "Slut" And "Whore"

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And people are really mad about it. UPDATE: The actors have issued apologies.

Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner are under fire for a new interview with Digital Spy, in which they jokingly describe Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow character in The Avengers as a "slut" and a "whore".

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The comments were in a response to a question about fans 'shipping Black Widow with multiple male characters in the Avengers movies.

The comments were in a response to a question about fans 'shipping Black Widow with multiple male characters in the Avengers movies.

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In addition to the "slut" remark, Renner joked that the character had a prosthetic leg, implying this makes her undesirable.

In addition to the "slut" remark, Renner joked that the character had a prosthetic leg, implying this makes her undesirable.

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Can You Recognize These Iconic Nickelback Videos From A Single Screencap?

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They’re all amazing, but let’s see how well you remember them.

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