Six-year-old puts rainbow flags in mailboxes to advocate for SSM
An adorable new video shows Australian kids campaigning for marriage equality with rainbow flags.
Patrick Abboud of SBS Viceland interviewed some activist kids to see what they鈥檙e doing for the cause.
One six-year-old boy, Archie, says in the video that he鈥檚 putting rainbow flags in local mailboxes to encourage residents to vote Yes.
鈥淎ll they鈥檙e doing is getting married, they鈥檙e not doing anything to us,鈥� he says.
Archie鈥檚 parents say he asked to fill in the marriage ballots when they arrived so that he could have his say.
Abboud noted that neither Archie nor the other children featured in the video are from rainbow families.
Nine-year-old Eadie, who lives in Tony Abbott鈥檚 electorate, is shown writing a letter to the former Prime Minister, calling differential treatment of gay couples 鈥渦nfair鈥�.
鈥淎t my school we are taught not to bully, and you are bullying the [LGBTI] community,鈥� she writes.
The video isn鈥檛 all Yes campaigners. Fourteen-year-old Monique, interviewed at a No rally, says she believes in marriage between a man and a woman.
鈥淔or a child to grow up they should have a father figure and a mother figure,鈥� she says.
鈥淲e still love our homosexual brothers and sisters,鈥� adds Monique鈥檚 mother.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 have to agree with their choices.鈥�
Monique is the only young No campaigner featured. Abboud said there are kids campaigning on both sides, but parents and campaign groups declined to let him interview young members, citing fear of repercussions from marriage equality supporters.
In the video, Abboud leaves the city to meet 14-year-old Jim in rural Bega, NSW, who is campaigning locally for marriage equality by distributing rainbow socks.
Jim is shown approaching some of the town鈥檚 older residents and being rebuffed.
He has had plenty of success reaching other people in town, though, and has set up an Instagram using the hashtag #SocksForSameSexMarriage.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a funny feeling, learning from your kids,鈥� says Jim鈥檚 father.
Abboud said he was moved to make the documentary because of the emphasis that has been placed on children during the marriage equality debate.
鈥溾�橶on鈥檛 somebody think of the children鈥� is a line that鈥檚 been put out consistently through the entire campaign,鈥� he said.
鈥淚 thought, 鈥業 really want to know what they think鈥�. Sometimes we think they鈥檙e too tiny to have an opinion, but they do, and a lot of times their opinions are really interesting and not clouded by politics.鈥�
” We love our homosexual brothers and sisters. We don’t have to agree with their choices” says 14-year-old Monique’s mother.
Here is yet another self-styled oh-so-liberal heterosexual who lets herself down and puts her homophobia on display!
She tolerates us and says she loves us – BUT she still is unable to accept that our sexuality, just like her own, is NOT, nor ever has been, a “Choice”.
We are born with our sexuality already in place.
No, it may not be evident until we are older – BUT it is permanently part of us all
Yet it should never be forgotten that it is thanks to homophobes like Monique’s mother that, until recently, we have been forced to hide our true identity BUT nothing will ever change us. The Truth will eventually come out.
You haven’t considered the possibility that the person calling sexuality a “choice” is in fact a screaming lesbian who’s desperately burying her real self in the hope of appearing “normal” to her “normal” family and their “normal” church.
But yeah, sexuality isn’t a choice and if you’ve “chosen” to be straight the news is you’re gay.
I Think that Gay People should be allowed to marry the person they love and don,t let anyone tell us otherwise . People that have voted NO should not be allowed to go to a same sex wedding because its not fair on that person. and they should be given the NO and make them stop and think about it before start to Jug that person . same sex couples have much rights as straight couples.!!!