The Same Sex Marriage Act....

Has Finally Been Passed By Parliament Here In OZ......Great News......It's Been A Long

And Sometimes Bitter Debate........Now All I Have To Do Now Is Find Myself A Husband......

Not Too Confidant About That One........



Cheers Glen.

 

We've had gay marriage for 14 years now.

The first gay couple to be granted a legal marriage license in Massachusetts (2003)

 

I'm Embarrased To Say We Were Dragging The Chain On This Issue.......22 Countries

Are Ahead Of Us......But The Important Thing Is We Finally Got There.......Wild Scenes

In Parliament When The Bill Passed With Cheers.....Lots Of Hugs.....And The

Public Gallery Broke Into The Song "We Are Australian".......Never Seen Anything Like

It In Australian Politics In All My Years......



Cheers Glen.

 

Good for Oz. Glen you need to promote yourself, maybe star in an Aussie version of Brokeback Mountain?

 

I still think it should be illegal for hots guys to marry

Any guy a 7 or below can marry his garden gnome for all I care

 

Good, less people breeding.

 

Congrats to Australia. I never thought the US would be ahead of another Western country on this issue.

 

I think it should be illegal for hot guys to be gay LOL
Why are so many hot guys gay? It’s like, the hotter they are, the more chance they are probably gay.

 

I could not care less who marries who, but it should not be up to any government to decide who can or cannot.

 

..but will they let you marry your cats

 

That will probably be the next thing.

 

I don't know why people always go for the whole "if gay people marry then people will marry animals".

It's just silly. A marriage as far as the state is concerned is a legal agreement between consenting people. Your cat or a slice of pie can not consent therefore they can not marry. It's a non-issue unless what "marriage" is to is of a religious nature.

 

Because they don't grasp the concept of "between consenting adults"

 

Why this is even a debate is a total mystery to me. Of course same sex marriage should be granted equal rights

 

.....bunch of cataphobes

nobody gave you the right to decide whether or not my cat consents

mind your own business

 

That's good news! I can't imagine going through discrimination on that level.

 

Groan........



Cheers Glen.

 

I did not realize that Oz was so behind the times, I assumed that you would have been showing us Poms the way.
Our daughter recently married, just as well that we are in London.

 

It takes a couple years for government bodies to release statistical data. So we are still yet to see the actual marriage rates across the US and Uk, once the honeymoon period of same sex marriage being fresh and new is over..

Scotand in its first year of legal same sex marriage had a whopping, i use whopping sarcastically, 736 new same sex marriages, out of a population of 5.3 million.

736×2/ 5.3 million, thats under 0.03 % of the population, and that was in the first year when there would have been an influx of couples that would have been waiting for same sex marriage to be legal and not bothering with an insulting civil union.

Now if the number of gay people in scotlane is 3% of the total population, that means only 1 in 105 gay people got married that first year.

My point being, give 10 years of such data, around 10 years from now, and if it starts to become obvious gay people DONT marry anywhere near the rate strsight people do. I thinl its all going to backfire on us, LG (B)T bigtime

 

I think that looking at the overall gay population paints a somewhat misleading picture. The couple of guys who live down the road and faced years of stigma, are not going to want to rush out and get married just because the law that stigmatized them has changed, but people starting a relationship today will have very different views. Our daughter is a London police officer and being able to get married openly has saved her from many of the problems that faced people in the past, particularly regarding their openness in the work environment.