I’m sure you have heard all the arguments for and against the bill, but I thought it would be great if someone without a vested interest in the outcome spent some time doing a bit of solid research on all the terrible things we can expect to see if the bill passes into law.
The problem with such an exercise is that it requires a great deal of research, which is why only now, on the eve of the Second Reading of the bill, I am publishing my findings.
So here’s my list of all the terrible things that we can expect to see as a result of the passing of the Marriage Equality Bill.
Please let me know if I have missed anything off my list.
You forgot this awful thing as well:
ReplyDeleteCan't forget that.
Good, looks like my plan is working here. Not grey, but blank is as good as.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that the older generation (of which I am one) still equate the word 'gay' with men putting their thingies in other mens bottoms, which they think is abnormal, whereas younger people think this is OK
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that this is a problem that the older generation needs to get over, and that the sooner they stop trying to ram their views about personal sexual choice down our throats (innuendo intended), the better the world will be.
DeleteOh, and if you want to be the person who tells everyone else how to live their lives, at least stick a name on your comment. You coward.
Is marriage eligibility contingent upon where thingies are put? What then of heterosexual couples who indulge in anal sex?
DeleteOr perhaps it's less of a matter where thingies are put as long as the participants are of different gender?
Or maybe that's all kind of irrelevant against the rights of two people who want to make a lifelong commitment to each other.
Speak for yourself, thank you very much. At 50 I am well and truly old enough to represent myself.
DeleteIsn't it funny how most of them assume gay people are men. Yet, they have no problem watching women on women porn? I think you may be on to something. It's not homosexuality they have a problem with it's anal sex. Guess they're just not getting any.
DeleteWell Anonymous, I was born gay way back in Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine. Where I put my thingy is NONE of your business, but you don't have the right to deny me my rights just because you think I'm abnormal. I frankly don't think AT ALL about what straight folk get up to in their bedrooms, I know it's not for me and leave it at that.
DeleteAnonymous, the fascination with anal sex by those who use it to decry marriage equality baffles me. [Many] gay men engage in anal sex. [Many] heterosexual couples engage in anal sex. And yes, [many] people of both types engage in sex that includes other practices you may find "icky."
DeleteRegardless of all of this, do you somehow think that my marrying my partner of 3 decades is suddenly going to cause you to put your thingy in some guy's (or girl's) bottom? For if this is the case, I think it calls in to question just how resolute you are. My marrying a man would cause you this angst in the same way my wearing wrinkled clothes would cause you never to iron again.
Why is it always guy on guy action that people against equal rights bring up? I, myself, don't understand it at all, either. But some of my dearest friends are gay men. They are some of the most intelligent, amazing, kindhearted, fascinating people I know. I also do not understand guy on girl action. I try very hard not to think of either as I truly just don't get it. I have some very close straight friends as well. Being straight or gay doesn't define who you are. It doesn't make you a better or worse human being. It doesn't make you more or less intelligent. It doesn't make you more or less funny. It doesn't improve or ruin your personality. I can say this in sincerity as I have known a vast number of both gay and straight people. The majority of both left very little impression upon me, soon to be forgotten once met. The group that I hold dear, that remain through all the years, are the best of the best. Their sexuality is just that...THEIRS. It is not part of our friendship. Anonymous, you are not that much older than I am, and you are younger than my parents. Age has nothing to do with being a decent human being and realizing that no one is trying to force their views on you or make you change your way of life in any way. Everyone deserves the right to the pursuit of happiness. It is in the Constitution. We (speaking on behalf of the LGBT community as a whole) do not want to change your way of life, Anonymous. We do not want to even drop by for dinner. We are not like the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, we aren't coming door to door to convert straight folk. We simply want you to stop forcing your views & your way of life on us, denying us the same rights you enjoy and have your entire life just because you were born straight. If you want us to stop making such a big deal about being gay there is one way to make that happen: give us equal rights. We pay the same taxes, abide by the same laws, answer to the same government that straight people do - why should we be treated any differently? You give us equal rights and we will stop making all this commotion about not having them. You won't be bombarded with Gay Rights issues every time you turn on the TV, got on the internet, or open a newspaper. Your views truly make no sense. What someone does with another consenting adult behind closed doors is not your, mine or anyone's business. It should have no bearing on whether they are treated equally or not. There was once a time when people of color were considered inferior and denied equal rights, even though their DNA is exactly the same as white people DNA - meaning they are equally human. There was once a huge fear of interracial relationships for fear that it would ruin the white race. As you can see by looking out your nearest window, that didn't happen. Equal rights for all human being is not only the right thing, it is a necessary thing. A man named Hitler once thought an entire population of people were inferior and should be exterminated. Your line of thinking aligns yourself with him. Is that where you want to be? A little history reminder: Hitler was on the wrong side of history.
DeleteTiffany, dear Tiffany. Still plenty of people who believe in racial inferiority. They won't change until they die. Same goes for equal rights for all- to them this is just a continuation of the disaster that started when women started to get the vote in the late 19th century. What a bewildered world it must be for them. Please don't use Hitler as an example though- Godwins law states you automatically lose. Which of course you do. Although, whilst we're on the topic, I'm interested in who this "entire population of people" is? Do you mean the Gypsies? Or the Homosexuals? Maybe the Russians. Or the Polish. Oh, you mean the Jehovah's Witnesses right? And the handicapped. Maybe the Arabs? I'm a little confused.
DeleteI'm agin this bill because if I want to tell the missus to cook me some eggs, she'd better bloody hop to the kitchen quick smart and do it, and no stinkin' pollie is going to tell me otherwise.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean, not that sort of marriage equality?
I heart you.
DeleteYes I think that old people should get that!
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Wait.. what about all the heterosexual couples that will run out and become homosexuals? Isn't that a real danger?? Or the children that will be loved by parents that don't have different sex parts? Equality.. What a novel concept. And from a Nation that calls it's self Free too? Who would of believed it? It's time already people!
ReplyDeletelist? what list? Is there some rational reason why the list has been deleted from the article? It's very difficult to critique a blank page...just saying...
ReplyDeleteYou are kidding right?
DeleteJust in case you aren't kidding, dancandan, there is no list. That is the point. NOTHING terrible will happen if gay people are granted equal rights...hence the blank page and then the line saying the writer believes he has listed everything. I REALLY hope you were kidding...(shaking my head)
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