There’s no reason different committed adult relationships can’t have equal legal rights. I thought they already largely did, but by all means let’s change that if they don’t. I have no problem with their being a ‘committed relationships act’ which puts different adult relationships on an equal footing.

What I don’t get is, what is the necessity of getting rid of male/female marriage? For that is exactly what is proposed, everyone is to be lumped in together in the new institution of genderless marriage. Who needs this? It’s an incredibly boring idea that mixes the colours of the rainbow into grey.

Whatever their sexuality, it is significant to almost all people a)what their gender is and b)what the gender of their partner is. It’s not ok to take the recognition of what there relationship is away from them. I feel that there’s a bizarre push for a genderless society in progress which largely doesn’t correlate with the interests of your community.

What needs working on is equal recognition of different relationships, not the obliteration of difference.

There are plenty of intelligent, loving people (straight and gay) who are voting No out of a love of what marriage is now, without a bone of hate for or fear of people whom this relationship doesn’t suit. I don’t think you’re inferior if man/woman marriage is not for you. I mean don’t you care about the identity of your community? Why be consumed into an overwhelmingly heterosexual institution?

This is like the high school principle ignoring all its LGBTI students and their parents and most of the teachers, begging him not to let this happen. Some of the teachers in his school of course think he is making a great decision, the likes of Abbott and others and though they are only a minority, the principle listens to them and not the others. All stand by helpless as they watch him drag the LGBTI kids out to the oval for them to try and survive being beaten up by a pack of hatefilled homophobic bigots and religious zealots. The ones who are on the side lines have been made to watch in horror, while others cheer it all on with their vote. In that world the principle would be fired and would never get a position of power and management again.

In our real world the haters and bullies scream “free speech to discriminate” from the sideline useing the Prime ministers opinion invitation they recieved in the mail as the reason for why it is ok to vilify and hate on a minotity. And our Priminister keeps his job.

Years of hard work shutting those discriminatory bigoted voices down, in my opinion, has now been damaged for some time to come. They were there under their rocks and most did not dare let us see or hear them thanks to discrimination laws that protected us. This has given them all some sort of sick get out of jail free card.

If any of my community or its advocates ever forget this and the toll it has had on all of us and still vote LNP in the future, YOU ARE a part of the problem and will never understand what it is to be a part of the solution. I have never voted for the LNP but in my opinion what they have put us all through is outrageous and completely unforgivable. Never forget it!

Thank you for calling it!

Cheers

But please try to understand that this kind of reaction from us is exactly what the other side wants. They want us to get angry and be abusive so that they can sit on their high horses and say ‘look at the way those people are behaving. We are the reasonable ones here.’

Let’s all stay cool and not give the other side even more ammunition. Let’s soldier on and try to persuade as many people as possible. If someone wants to vote no, don’t abuse them, just move on to the next person and keep trying to make the case. Eventually, if we hold our nerve and keep up the hard work, we will win.

Marriage quality is only the tip of the iceberg… the things to follow in its wake will likely be the death of democracy and the autocratic society…

Brexit in England, Trump in America, The No vote in Australia…

Brace yourselves