Why same sex marriage matters

[penny7b]

I’ve been reading a few articles lately (timed to coincide with Mardi Gras and certain motions in parliament to remove the right of cabinet ministers to veto Territory laws) like this one from Helen Razer about how same sex marriage is un-necessary because no right thinking homosexual person would want to get married anyway because marriage as an

Comments

[miss_madb]

It's about giving gay people the legal power to make the same major life choices - for better or for worse - as straight people. I've never quite understood exactly what about that is supposed to be so difficult to understand. :-/

P.

[fluffworld]

That article, and a similar one which was also printed in the Big Issue, annoyed the ever-living fuck out of me.
Who the fuck is Helen Razer to tell people - who are being denied the basic fucking right to declare their commitment to the people they love - what they should want?

[penny7b]

Yeah, there's a whole "People who have things in common with me must have *everything* in common with me and think what I think and want what I want" thing going on there. It's really a bit shit.