Marriage Equality Sans Marriage

Is it just me? 

I'm so happy that I am not home for the horrific charade that is the marriage equality debate in Australia. 

Obviously I'm voting yes. Take out the words marriage equality from the equation and replace then with 'slavery' or 'women's rights' and all of the no arguments are the same. It's offensive really. 

What's more important is for my country to send the real and symbolic message that to be gay in Australia is not to be a second class citizen - that at a fundamental legal and social level it's ok. 

But don't hold your breath. Even if it's a resounding yes the Liberals, and the disgusting coward Fizza at its helm (complete with all his puppet strings) won't leap to change the law. It will stall and flounder until they lose government. Then Labor has pledged to pass the law within 100 days, but let's face it, their track record is nearly as disgusting.  

The bitterest message though in all of this for me is that I won't be marrying. All the single people my age, or age appropriate to me, have either given up, are crazy, or both. Not a productive field. I place myself in the first or maybe the third camp there. 

So every time I hear anything about marriage equality know that it is a double stab - first because it's clear my country thinks I'm second class, and a second because irrespective of any law, it's not going to change for me anyway. I guess I had my turn years ago. 

"And that is why my eyes are closed,

It's just as well for all I've seen

And so it goes, and so it goes, 

And you're the only one who knows"*

Perhaps that's the best way to cast a - well I hate to call it a vote because it isn't, but you know what I mean - vote; not for yourself, but for the benefit of future generations. 

Yes. It is just me. 

* Billy Joel, And So It Goes, Stormfront, 1989