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Equal Love Campaign - Australia
Australian Parliament House - Senate - Inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009
Australian Marriage Equality - how to make a senate submission
Equal Love Campaign - Australia
Equal Love Campaign - Online Submission Form
Equal Love Campaign - details for who in the Senate to send stuff to
I write to express my support for the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009.
Although I myself am in a heterosexual marriage, my partner and I chose to do a registry ceremony in the morning with just ourselves and required witnesses, and then held what we consider our Real Wedding in the afternoon, in front of our relatives and friends.
A major factor in that decision to keep the "legal ceremony" out of sight is the required wording reminding people that marriage is an exclusive union of a man and a woman.
We both have a large number of non-heterosexual friends, and we felt that that required wording would be offensive to them, and offensive to us.
I wish that our friends who wish to be joined in marriage in Australia be allowed to do so, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Anything else is a blatant inequality - their relationships are not any less powerful or worthy than my own, so why are they not allowed to choose the union of marriage?
Thank you,
David Goh
Australian Marriage Equality - how to make a senate submission
Equal Love Campaign - Australia
Equal Love Campaign - Online Submission Form
Equal Love Campaign - details for who in the Senate to send stuff to
I write to express my support for the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009.
Although I myself am in a heterosexual marriage, my partner and I chose to do a registry ceremony in the morning with just ourselves and required witnesses, and then held what we consider our Real Wedding in the afternoon, in front of our relatives and friends.
A major factor in that decision to keep the "legal ceremony" out of sight is the required wording reminding people that marriage is an exclusive union of a man and a woman.
We both have a large number of non-heterosexual friends, and we felt that that required wording would be offensive to them, and offensive to us.
I wish that our friends who wish to be joined in marriage in Australia be allowed to do so, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Anything else is a blatant inequality - their relationships are not any less powerful or worthy than my own, so why are they not allowed to choose the union of marriage?
Thank you,
David Goh