Marriage Equality

You know, I've never really cared that much about marriage equality, for myself. I've just never been that into it. I don't know why, I've just been kind of neutral about it. I've never really understood what the advantage was of a ceremonial function in confirming one's relationship.

However, that is just me, and clearly other people feel differently. Many people say it is important to them, and the rest of the Western World has decided in their favour, which is wonderful. It means we are a fair and just world society, which is less homophobic than we may otherwise think it is.

But you know, in Australia, now, it just seems to be getting quite ridiculous. The endless talking, the continuing discussions, the debates, all the yap, haven't we heard it all by now? What more is there to say? It has been legalised by many, many countries in the world and what has been the consequence of this? Well, nothing, other than the world continuing to spin and a group of adults who always wanted to get married have got married. No skies fell in. No sink holes opened up and swallowed Sodom all over again. What else does Australia need to know?

The people who believe in The Almighty will always be against it because of the ancient manuscript they believe is the word God. We know that. Surely, we don't need them to state their religious beliefs over and over again. Their religious beliefs haven't changed, as they keep assuring us in 2000 years and counting.

The practising Christians now amount to something like 8% of the population.

Practising Gays amount to something like 10% of the population.

From all accounts, something like 70% of the population think that marriage equality should be legalised.

So, two questions,

Why are we spending, what is it, 160 million dollars to find out something that we already know? That the majority of the people think that marriage equality should be legalised. It doesn't really make sense to spend so much money to find out something we already know. We could spend 160 million dollars on the poorest schools in Australia. Wouldn't that make a huge difference to those schools? We could spend 160 million fighting poverty. 

I don't know what the Christians get out of marriage equality being legalised, or not being legalised? If marriage equality remains illegal, or if marriage equality becomes legal, how will the lives of Christians differ under each scenario? 

Christian's lives won't differ under either scenario.