There is another Ben that writes in here from the Labor Party. I could not imagine him being as handsome as you! I hope you were not offended.

I argue for parenting rights, but I will never be having children, as I have seen the work couples who are gay have put into them, and I would be to exhausted to do the work they do. So running off to New York and getting married will not change my ability to argue for this to be recognized, or for us to be included in the Federal Equal Opportunity Act.

I have said nothing in support of civil unions, nor will I ever, and I am not a member or supporter of any political party.

I wish you all the best with your marriage however.

At the Marriage hate rally, in the Great Hall, there was of course the Labor party member, standing side by side people who called us Evil and tried to get people to kill us. You will have to forgive me if I do not feel compelled to run off and join Labor. I acknowledge the work of people within Labor who are working for change, but I can only judge the party by the actions of its leader and the policy outcomes. So far I am yet to hear Gillard berate the ALP member who was stiring up hate against us.

Save yourself the heart-ache and join us to change things here rather than running away from it.

I see where your point, but religious groups never owned marriage. They only ever owned their own different ceremonies. Most do not even agree on each other or the role of women in a church let alone us. Most marriages have no church at all. It is simply a legal contract that gives rights and protections. The argument from most people of conservative religions as that it makes homosexuality normal. So you get the usual deviate comments etc against us when it is mentioned – how we want to molest children etc. It is a bit like saying a Buddhist should be Christian. It has nothing to do with conservative church people who I live with or marry. If they win on this, they will turn back the clock on many areas. I am though, off to New York soon, as I am not waiting, and when the law change happens, I will already be married. I am having a choice about when I get married.

Until recent history, it was not the business of any government who got married. People had a celebration with their family and friends and that was it. Same-sex couples married, straight couples married, it was up them, not some government. They announced they were married at the celebration and that was it. Now we have regulations, and so comes rights and protections with those regulations.

But if you think about it, poll after poll shows the majority of Australians support Marriage Equality. And the hate rally in Canberra against Marriage could only raise a few hundred people. Mardi Gras has hundreds of thousands, and Midsummer about a 100,000. The vast majority of young Labor and Liberal, strongly support equality. A generational change in parliament is taking shape, just as it did to end the White Australia Policy, and to treat Aboriginal people as citizens.

There are over 1084 pieces of legalisation that refer to the Marriage Act. It would take years and years of parliament to change all these. Certainly no person who advocates for Civil Unions, like Malcolm Turnbull, is proposing to give any of the same protections the Marriage Contract has. They are putting up a passive argument, a Civil Union without power – no rights and no protections. And I have to ask, what business is it of Malcolm Turnbull’s who I marry? I did not turn up to his wedding and tell his wife to do a runner. Butting into the lives of people and telling them who to marry is a recipe for disaster.

It is interesting how the Liberal Party argues we should pay Equal taxes, but not have Equal laws. There is certainly a contradiction in the way some Australians are treated. I thought being a Liberal, was about reducing the “Nanny State”, not increasing it.

I am no fan of Julia Gillard, but parading a coffin around with her name on it, while Tony Abbott laughs and applauds, is certainly a radical departure from the behaviour of a member of parliament. It is the actions of a criminal.

Saying that the Greatest Gift a woman can give is virginity, left me speechless, but there was that radical again, the Liberal Party.

Not letting some people access health care when they are old and sick based on their sexuality, excluding them from protections in the Equal Opportunity Act, is also a radical social agenda.

I stand honouring those of us who have died like my first great love at the hands of hate inspired bashers, and I will continue to fight of the living.

But lest we forget Malcolm Turnbull, who has been silent on all this, not having the courage or conviction to do the right thing, and take a stand to save the Liberal Party, from a radical social agenda.