This was the headline in Saturday’s Age which I had the pleasure of not reading until last night, as I was at my Mum’s place in the country. Naturally on reading the headline I assumed our brave state government was now in favour of gay marriage. Or rather, was now opposed to the homophobic aspect of the marriage laws which annihilate the love between men and between women. As if.
I am so weary of this sort of hand-wringing cowardice. If you hate gay people, just come out and say so. But if you think it’s okay to be gay then you have to be in favour of gay marriage. You just have to be. Otherwise it’s like saying, “I think black people should be treated the same as white people. Except that black people should not be allowed to get married.” Can you get away with this crap anymore? Well, no if you’re talking about race. But yes if you are talking about sexual preference.
Just come out and do it. You’ll feel so much better and you won’t have to waffle on endlessly anymore about civil unions and registrations of relationships and recognition of overseas marriages (although not as marriages, as such, of course not, but merely as “relationships.”)
Or don’t do it, suit yourselves. But don’t get all sooky and precious when you lose seats to the Greens. Or to the Liberals. Or to any party or grouping or individual who show a sausage-skin’s worth of intestinal fortitude.
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