MY STAND ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY
The majority of citizens within a Country, State, Territory and even an individual Electorate within these; can and do change many things about the way we are governed and the way we treat our fellow human beings.
That doesn't mean that an individual who disagrees with some things needs to change those things in their personal lives, they need to accept that the personal lives of individuals and how an individual chooses to express their own sexuality is that persons private right.
Denying people the right to marry because you don't express your sexuality in the same way they do is wrong to me, very wrong. What someone does with their own body as a consenting adult with another consenting adult is really no one elses' business.
It is only when assaults and violence take place between human beings - regardless of their form of sexual expression does society needs to step in.
It is literally a waste of time and money for society to spend its' limited resources stopping people from loving each other just because of the way they choose to express their sexuality.
It is not only practising and non-practising heterosexuals who pay taxes and have the right to vote in our country, Australia in my case, but also all those other citizens who express their sexuality in ways other than heterosexual expression.
Our Marriage Act not only directly conflicts with our Anti-Discrimination legislation but it also directly conflicts with Section 116 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia.
"the Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth."
Interesting debate/discussion/academic view of this issue of the separation of church and state can be found at http://www.hsnsw.asn.au/MaxWallace.html
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