Your a conservative – means your a dickhead!

I agree Sean – this isn’t Canada. This is ten years later, and we have a far, far higher level of public support for marriage equality in Australia now, than there was in Canada in 2005. It would be a crazy-brave/stupid government that, once thousands of couples have been married around the country,, would try to annul them all. It almost certainly won’t happen.

I find it abhorrent that it should weigh on someone’s conscience whether a same-sex couple should marry. If you fully accept gay people, as modern Australia apparently already has, you accept marriage equality.

Why should the electorates have a say over who I marry? I don’t tell them who to marry.

I understand your point, Alastair. This isn’t Canada though and look what happened in the ACT. Even in the USA, State law may well be challenged after the next electoral cycle. The best ‘Binding’ result is one where the voters and politician’s are able to exercise democratic ‘will of the people’. Interfering with that leaves option for doubt which can lead to winding back the law. I really do believe it best to encourage a conscience vote on all sides so politician’s can say they did what their electorate wanted without reprisal. The road to change is long and we do have time on our side. Forcing the issue could end up being more harmful in the long run. I’m happy to be proven wrong, of course.

In Canada it was passed, and within 6 months a conservative government was elected with a commitment to revisit it – but when it came time to try to repeal it, marriage equality was supported by an even larger majority of MPs. Once this is passed, the community will move on (esp given how many Australians are already behind it) and therefore there is very little danger in it being repealed. #ItsTimeToBind