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    I have had a long think about whether to post what I am posting, and due to the ridiculous situation in this country where anyone who does not support leftist minority causes gets howled down, spat on and abused, but I am going to buck the trend and take a stand for the democracy that we are supposed to have in Australia. We will soon be receiving voting material in the mail in regards to "marriage equality". At the last Federal Election, we were told that if the coalition was re-elected that we would be having a plebiscite on this matter - effectively the same way we vote at State and Federal elections. This is as fair as it gets.....people get to have a say.

    As soon as we had a re-elected government, the Labor Party headed by Bill Shorten and supported by the Greens decided that the people of this country were not capable of making their own decision on this matter, and using their combined senate numbers decided to block the plebiscite and demand that the government make gay marriage law.......without any say from the citizens of this country. Every leftist and green minority group quickly jumped on board to push this, ably assisted by the rich and famous who apparently need to speak for us less rich and famous because we are in fact so stupid, we should not be allowed to vote because we are "ignorant" and "ill informed". The end result was the Federal Government buckling under pressure and announcing a less binding postal vote. Unlike a plebiscite that has the same rules as state and federal voting, yes campaigners are already organising supporters to collect and fill in as many forms from disinterested people as possible to make sure they win. That’s supposedly our democracy at work. It really makes you wonder what people have fought and died for in this country…..I am quite sure it wasn’t so that leftist minority groups could hijack our country on a large scale.

    Gay couples of course could just have their own union, after all marriage is a religious ceremony between and a man and a woman for the procreation of a child. So why is it necessary for the gay community to rain on someone else's parade? Simply, it isn't necessary at all, it’s just another example of a small minority trying to impose their will on others. What portion of the Australian population are gay? Its estimated at less than 5%.......so why does every person for the yes campaign claim they have gay friends that are very upset that they can’t get married in Australia ? In a nutshell, they either all have the same friends or they are liars. It’s as simple as that.

    The gender teachings that are going on in this country are a disgrace. Teaching children that your gender is "fluid", ie, that you can just change it at will is stupid and dangerous and is yet more of the constant leftist garbage that we are brainwashed with. I shudder to think of the results of this in 20 years. Teaching that you can be “Arthur” or “Martha” all in the one week is as idiotic as it gets, as is the promotion of homosexuality as a lifestyle. It wasn’t that long ago that we were hearing “we can’t help it if were born like this”, then in the space of a couple of years we are actively promoting it to children. If gay marriage becomes law, (and no doubt it will be given that anyone against it is abused) we will see marriage decimated by record divorce rates. Gay men are realistically the most promiscuous species on the planet, and if you add to that young men who are being brainwashed with “gender fluidity” and “sexual choice”, marriage is likely to become a nonstop merry go round of which there will only be one winner….lawyers.

    I compare this to other large scale stupidity such as it wasn’t that long ago that we were being screamed at that “Global Warming” was going to kill us all. OMG, panic, panic, we are all going to die. A government expert gave us only a few years before we were out of water and croaking it large scale. Then it rained….like it does after any period of drought. And some people looked very, very stupid. But they didn’t let it rest, if at first you don’t succeed, have another go. So after the “Global Warming” failure, they came up with “Climate Change”. Now they were on a dead set winner with this one, because the weather actually does change. Most of us know that as seasons, but apparently we are wrong.
    “Gay Marriage” didn’t really get off the ground to well either, but it was promptly relabelled as “Marriage Equality”. Of course the real meaning of this is that any marriage is equal, if you want to get married to 6 different people that will of course be marriage equality. Already in this country we are accepting marriages from migrants with multiple partners. And why stop there? What if you want to marry your cat or your dog? Surely we can’t discriminate against you, after all if you can change your gender and sexuality at will, then you can of course simply say “I identify as a dog and I want to marry my partner”. You don’t think that will happen? Give it 10 years. As it stands, I am a 50 year old male, but if I want to say I identify as a woman I can. And be treated as one.

    Our traditional way of life in Australia is under attack and if you don’t agree with it, please don’t vote for it. Marriage will be a laughing stock and you can add to that the rest of the current idiotic leftist causes – pulling down our statues and monuments, rewriting our constitution so that Aboriginals are elevated as being more equal than anyone else and banning Australia Day because it was invasion day. The latter being most amusing……I think it should be celebrated as the day Aboriginal Australia took in its first refugees, which they are course compelled to do. Of course if the lefty’s don’t agree with that one (How can they not, they promote it) then as an Australian with 4 convict ancestors I would like to take legal action against Aboriginal Australia for their breach of duty of care to my ancestors, failing to intervene in my ancestors incarceration and 101 breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. And if they think you can’t apply that retrospectively, then why do they constantly apply today’s standards against historical events? Remember Sorry day? Just say sorry, and that’s end of it all? Yeah……hoodwinked again.

    I have been with my wife for about 25 years........a very up and down 25 years. My opinion when we first started going out together in regards to marriage was the old favourite......it’s just a piece of paper. I stuck to that, but after 7 years my wife wanted a commitment from me and I thought that was fair enough. But I said, if it’s really just about us, then you won’t have a problem if we get married at the registry office in Melbourne, just the 2 of us and no one else. She agreed. And our wedding was truly only about us, I hijacked a couple of old ladies having coffee in a cafe to stand in as witnesses. And so I was married.
    Spending your life with someone presents all kinds of challenges and believe me, my marriage has plenty. There have been several times when I have seriously considered walking away from it, particularly over the last 10 years. But do you know why I haven’t? Because I made a commitment for better or worse. As a man and a woman.

    I would urge you to help stop the rot. Send a firm message that you are sick of people raining on your parade…….this is just the start of more to come. I have nothing personal against anyone that is gay and treat anyone as an individual. But the gay community can have their own union and call it anything they like……..but they don’t want to because these days it’s simply more fun to hijack something that belongs to someone else.

    Unlike my own country, I will allow you to have your say here. As long as it is done constructively and respectfully.

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    I'm not going to vote - I couldn't care less whether they're allowed to marry or not.

    If they want to marry... why not, they have just as much right to be miserable as the rest of us.
    Oops I forgot - I'm divorced.

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    Typical....can't say I'm surprised. Like all of these issues lies abound.
    The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by enf View Post
    Typical....can't say I'm surprised. Like all of these issues lies abound.
    Apart from the marriage debate, lies galore are being spread about Cook and other Australians at the moment. I wish people would take time to actually read some historic books about events rather than jump on bandwagons. Stan Grant's recent historical blunders are plain embarrassing. I am currently reading a book from 1870 called The Black War of Van Diemens Land.

    While written for the purpose of sympathy for the Aboriginals of Tasmania, it also shows that Aboriginals were probably in front when it came to doing the killing which caused the action that resulted in their demise in Tasmania.

    Misinformation is becoming a professional business in every leftist campaign and as they now brainwash the young from kindergarten to university you have to wonder how long our history is going to last. They now engage in effective virtual book burning because our young are pre programmed with garbage.

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    I could not care less about it and totally sick of the wasted air time this crap is getting.

    I'd much rather postal votes about matters that matter to all Australians - not for the selected minority we are about to see in the mail that's costing tax-payers millions.

    Rising crime; bail conditions; continued failure of judges and magistrates; border protection; pensions; housing affordability; immigration; superannuation... - any politician tackling these problems gets my vote.

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    I'm voting YES for three reasons.

    1. I have nothing to gain from voting NO.
    2. I have nothing to lose from voting YES.
    3. I'm sick and tired of this debate dominating everything we say and do in this country including how people like to obfuscate gay marriage with political leanings.


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    I'm voting yes for very similar reasons to PZ however I just wish they could find another name for it.
    In hindsight I should have posted my Facebook status as: "I've blown the head gasket on my 1997 XR3i" rather than "I've just buggered a 14 year old escort".
    The police still haven't seen the funny side, my lap top's been confiscated and the wife has gone off to her mum's.

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    I will be voting NO as am sick of minority groups trying to shove their leftist ideology down everyone's throats.

    Personally I could not care less what people do with their lives but this issue is a waste of time and taxpayers money.

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    I'll vote yes, if I can have more than 1 wife

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    I'll vote yes, if I can have more than 1 wife
    But you can have more than 1 wife
    Doesn't mean you have to marry them though
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    I will be voting NO because if the Yes Vote wins it won't be the end of it but just the start of things to come!
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    Quote Originally Posted by eaglem View Post
    I will be voting NO because if the Yes Vote wins it won't be the end of it but just the start of things to come!
    likewise. This whole agenda will start with same sex marriage , then the lefties will demand more changes ( aka inclusion ) so you can marry your cat / dog / muslim goat ( therefore have legal sex with them ) . Then the lefties will want to include pedophiles marrying children !!

    the Safe Schools bullcrap has not reached Queensland yet luckily , i dont think us uneducated bogans will allow it

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    Quote Originally Posted by VroomVroom View Post
    likewise. This whole agenda will start with same sex marriage , then the lefties will demand more changes ( aka inclusion ) so you can marry your cat / dog / muslim goat ( therefore have legal sex with them ) . Then the lefties will want to include pedophiles marrying children !!
    What's with all the slippery slope fallacies? Other countries have recognised same sex marriage for years and it hasn't led to any of those insane things.

    No matter how this all works out, the left and right will continue lobbing for what they want to lobby for. Ticking yes or no isn't going to silence anyone about other issues, so I don't know why anyone would base their decision on that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    I'll vote yes, if I can have more than 1 wife
    No need to vote at all on that one, Northern suburbs of Melbourne and Western Suburbs of Sydney already have plenty of people doing exactly that. Why we recognise it, I dont know.

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    Your a gluten for punishment old chap . lol

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    I'll vote yes for pretty much the same reasons as PZ. I don't see any gain voting no, just because you're sick and tired of the issue, or think it's a waste of time and money. If the vote turns out to be a majority negative, then it will just come up again and again anyway. Better off if the law is passed, the situation is resolved and let them get on with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob_m_54 View Post
    I'll vote yes for pretty much the same reasons as PZ. I don't see any gain voting no, just because you're sick and tired of the issue, or think it's a waste of time and money. If the vote turns out to be a majority negative, then it will just come up again and again anyway. Better off if the law is passed, the situation is resolved and let them get on with it.
    So we should give everyone who won't give up after one defeat their way just so it won't come up again and again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DB44 View Post
    So we should give everyone who won't give up after one defeat their way just so it won't come up again and again?
    That's not what I said. I said "I don't see any gain voting no, just because you're sick and tired of the issue, or think it's a waste of time and money"

    in other words, voting No out of spite, not because you disagree with same sex marriage, but because you're sick and tired of the issue.

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    Love is love.

    If two people of the same gender want to be legally recognised as a couple in the same manner as a heterosexual couple is recognised in a marriage and make that commitment to each other, I have no objection.

    Unlike some other factions of our society that want/demand we all change to be like them, these people just want the right to be themselves, so I vote yes... let them have a choice.

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