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Marriage Equality - A Human Rights Issue

9/22/2017

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Ask yourself how you would feel if someone else had the right to decide for you - about your life, your death, who you leave your property to, whether you can ever get married and be offered the same protections under the law as every other Australian citizen?

You pay the same amount of tax as every one else.
You have fewer rights.
Surely you shouldn't be expected to pay for rights to which you are not entitled. 

You are watching ads on TV which declare you a threat to family.
Yet you are family, have families, care for children, elderly parents, your neighbours....

You want to ask the people on TV and in the churches -If marriage is sacred then how are divorces possible? Annulments? Where are the protests about reality TV programs where couples marry the day they meet? Where are the sermons about marriages which enslave women and force them into lives of domestic violence and servitude?

You know that those who rejected you are now deciding your future.
How does this make you feel?

A YES vote cannot put at risk the rights of churches to discriminate. Their rights are enshrined in law. They cannot be forced to marry those they choose to deny. 
But a YES vote can ensure every citizen and tax payer of this country is equal under the law. Equal. That's all.
​Isn't that what we'd all want?
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