Comments on: A chance to send a marriage equality message

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 06:59:17 +0000

Look sister, I feel for ya, but don’t ask permission, marry in New Zealand! Marriage is 99 percent about your community, your partner, family, and great friends. Abbott is not your community, not involved in your life, and has no say over if you marry, just where, sort of.

Most celebrants from New Zealand will even come to Australia, for a small fee, so you can repeat your ceremony. Great, right? A few hours flight and you’re married. Have a reception in Australia for a larger group of people. When I married, everyone treated us as married. My community felt pride, yours can to. Lots of straight folk marry overseas anyways. So you can put your life energy, and it will run out at some point, into getting hot and flustered, or you can just damn marry.

I don’t think of myself as not married, neither does my beloved, or our family. Even neighbours gave gifts, but I live in the country, hours away from the big smoke. If even my Mormon neighbours gave gifts. My beloveds CEO is not the best cook, so it was a huge effort for her to bake a special cake for us, and get a BBQ happening. People were so happy for us, all straight good folk, some Catholic, some not. The point is, it is your life, marry if you want, now. The Labor Mobsters just put in Bullock in WA, who said he would never vote for equality. You can wait years for the mess of the Labor and Liberal Party, or just grab your beloved and book flights.

To those interested, it takes 3 business days for the certificate. It cost around 40 dollars. You must have the location, two witnesses, and the name of the celebrant on the form. We looked at Google Earth, and found a nice spot. Best day of my life! Could easily be the best day of your life.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 05:39:18 +0000

The link to the Marriage Amendment Bill 2014 No. , 2014: http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/tanyaplibersek/pages/90/attachments/original/1393319423/Proposed_Marriage_Equality_Bill_2014.pdf?1393319423

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 05:37:52 +0000

Amendment of the Marriage Act 1961 Schedule 1
Marriage Amendment Bill 2014 No. , 2014 3
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Marriage Act 1 1961 2
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1 Subsection 5(1) (definition of marriage) 4
Repeal the definition, substitute: 5
marriage means the union of two people, regardless of their sex, to 6 the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life. 7
2 Subsection 46(1) 8
Omit “a man and a woman”, substitute “two people”. 9
3 Section 47 10
After paragraph (a), insert: 11
(aa) imposes an obligation on an authorised celebrant, being a 12 minister of religion, to solemnise a marriage where the 13 parties to the marriage are of the same sex; or 14
4 Section 88EA 15
Repeal the section. 16
5 Part III of the Schedule (table item 1) 17
Omit “a husband and wife”, substitute “two people”.

By: Barrie

Barrie — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:36:20 +0000

“Young gay men and women are four or five times more likely to attempt suicide. Some of the stigma will lift once marriage equality is introduced. Recognising same-sex marriage will make us feel good about ourselves.”

That’s what they said 30 years ago when we were demanding the government get their laws OFF of our lives. Why didn’t decriminalisation deliver all it promised? But that’s propaganda for you. It’s narcissism that’s driving this marriage propaganda and it wont make a dent in the suicide stats.
In a world where all people are treated equal, things like marriage should be negligible. If marriage does confer certain “benefits and protections” then that’s privilege, which is the opposite of equality.

By: Keith Pullman

Keith Pullman — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:50:03 +0000

There is no good reason to deny we must keep evolving until an adult, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, monogamy, or polyamory is free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage (or any of those without the others) with any & all consenting adults, without prosecution, bullying, or discrimination. The limited same-gender freedom to marry is a great step, but it is not full marriage equality. Stand up for every adult’s right to marry any consenting adult(s). Get on the right side of history!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:36:53 +0000

Great stuff Troy. The more people that get behind things like this the more our voices will be heard. You have my vote.