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When the gay marriage vote came to Australia, my household got very political. I voted yes, but both of my dads voted no.
I never understood the gays who voted no on a referendum back in the 2000s and justified it with some religious and heteronormative bs like “marriage is from religion by religion” and “we’re the outliers, so we shouldn’t make people conform to us”. Like, how self-hating and backstabbing can you be. If you don’t want it, you don’t have to have it but let others realize their dreams at nobody’s expense.
I do agree that marriage is a religious thing and I wouldn’t care at all, but getting married brings a lot of benefits.
So its not like gay people want to “realize their dreams” but we want the same benefits that straight people have.
If religious people dont want to accept gay people, then benefits shouldn’t be given based on religious acts like marriage.
Marriage is not religious. Getting married in a church, with a priest and before God is the religious part.
In a lot of countries you can get married without any religion being involved. Some government officials will then officiate the wedding.
Is this how
conservativeshomophobes try to play the victim here? “Oh we’re in the minority now, let’s pretend we need to come out”?No, I think the joke is that just talking about your life is considered coming out or even “proselytizing”, if you’re not heterosexual.
