It’s only fair

Last Saturday we saw another of the gay and lesbian equality same-sex marriage rallies at Town Hall.

The marriage thing is hard for me. My grandfather has been married five times, both parents have been married twice each, and I go home to a cat and a dog. So for me, the marriage road has looked bleak in the past. But I do want to be equal.

A lot of my friends aren’t interested in it at all — “I don’t want to do what straight people are doing”.

I always come back to the equal thing. There should really be no argument at all, should there? To be equal in the year 2010 isn’t a huge ask, especially when we live in Australia.

As for the religious thing, it seems people pull out religion whenever they are nervous or hit with something they don’t really understand.

I remember when I first heard about Lady Di passing away, my mother was on the phone. “Now you need to go to church, Mother Theresa is sick also.” It was the craziest statement I had ever heard. We had never stepped foot in a church with my family in all our lives. How is that going to help anything?

Needless to say, it was my fault when Mother Theresa died. “You didn’t go, did you?”

So we need to push on with this. Our community should have choice, not just something to shut us up. If I want to marry my boyfriend, then I should be allowed to just like my grandfather who has married many women.

It won’t hurt anyone. What hurts is that because I’m a gay man, I’m not equal to the majority of Australians out there. That’s not fair.