In fact, I have so little to do with marriage that it seems silly for me to have to give an opinion on whether anyone should be able to get married.
But it's not about anyone in the sense of deciding who, it's about making it available to everyone.
At least that's what I thought before I started reading comments from friends on Facebook.
Matthew wrote:
The Australian plebiscite, where fathers get to tell the Australian Government that their sons are second class citizens. Thanks dad.
Kristen wrote:
The literally dozens of people who physically and mentally assaulted me for not being hetero, the people who made my life a torture and left me with damage that I am still trying to heal .... they get to vote on whether I am a real human who deserves real human rights.
The politics of Tony Abbott's idea to have a plebiscite as a way to avoid enduring conflict about a policy that the majority of Australians support really doesn't reflect the outcome of the survey.
It's a mechanism that does little but further delay an inevitable decision that should be based on equality.
In the process it re-opens a lot of psychological scars, as well as fanning bigotry.
Of course, Shaun Micallef has already skewered the whole thing in the way a legally-trained comedian would:
