What do people think?

I say bring it on! I want to make an honest woman out of Linda, lol!

Michelle 🙂

And an interesting Comment by a Labor MP

Pilbrow, a Pentecostal Christian, told the Goulburn Post that he saw no problem with allowing same-sex couples to marry and said the current law interfered with the separation of church and state.

‘The issue with the current Marriage Act is that the state has its fingers inside churches,’ Pilbrow told the paper.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/australian-christian-candidate-says-he-will-push-marriage-equality-if-elected110513

THis would be more in line with the reality – as the Legal recognition of marriage – and the churches recognition already DONT mesh. For example – There are are a number of situations in the area of divorce and marrying people who have been dovorced or from other denominations – that various churches DONT RECOGNISE the same set of rules NOW that the state does – …. (so the state my recogonise your marriage but the church wont.) Its time to recorgnise this and formally seperate Legal marriage from churge recognition of marriage.

Yay! Go Minnesota.

Thanks for keeping us aware of this, shadow Boxer.

Blessings,

Ann Maree

@ Jamesn

Im not sure – as I havent yet seen any academic research on this – but the polls in the media (which are not quite so trustworthy but can be helpful if u you at the questions and the details like WHO they asked carefully) do suggest that in many places across the world – Including a number of states in the USA and here – attitudes are changing.

So whereas polls which showed majority of people against Marriage equality a few years ago – are now showing the same number or more for it.

Some caveats to that (and please note – Im not saying this is good or bad – Im merely noting that this is a process that happens and is used by liberal and conservative, left and right wing, etc etc – its a form of marketing – and its pretty ubiquitous now . Im not making a judgement on it in anyway. Merely notinge that the language has changed – a sign of the "culture war" that are waging over this issue. A classic sign of that is the language used in the media. There are a number of very good books on the subject on how as issues are politicised the language is altered to make it more acceptable to the public – and often to obsfucate some of the issues. Im sure people can think of other examples) The older polls would have asked people about Gay Marriage. Now they are asking people about Marriage equality. The the question being asking has changed (in language and thats NOT insignificant.

However – having said that – I personally think there is a swing towards acceptance in this area. Thats my perceptions…

So I think your comment " or at least our politicians on both sides" is spot on ….

The population – has generally moved on – or enough of them to make this now not enough of a wedge issue to win or lose on… BUT but with the power so finely balanced in Canberra – it seems there are two points enough to topple a leader of either party…. Marriage Equality and / or Climate change.