SSM Plebiscite

[mateinone]

Truly bizarre commentary MIO.

Weird ++

stick to the footy would be my advice.

It is okay fly, I don't commentate to be approved by the masses.
I make my comments based on my beliefs, so am comfortable with you not understanding or agreeing with what I am saying.

If the situation is broken down, I have said that this is the discussion on whether or not the public have the right to determine whether or not 2 consenting adults of sane mind may or may not marry.

That is the absolute core of the discussion, anything else obfuscates that core situation.

As I have said what seems like 100 times.. If people are allowed to pass a judgment based on that core situation in any circumstance, then they are able to determine what constitutes a valid marriage in their opinion.

So once that is true, then understanding that due to ones upbringing/life exposure etc, there will be people who don't believe that 2 women or 2 men shall marry.
It doesn't mean that another person, having a different upbringing will agree or that either party is 'correct'.

I look at religion. I don't believe in any of the religions at all. To me it is absolute utter nonsense. That is based on the life I have lived and my way of interpreting that life. I don't for a second believe it is impossible if I lived in different circumstances for me to have grown up believing in any of the religions.

So whilst I don't believe at all, I do understand why people do, I understand that your upbringing.. your education, your family and your general environment play a part.

I raised the scenario of a particularly distasteful, frowned upon & illegal situation (which homosexuality remember once once also) as a hypothetical comparison.
I didn't raise it to say there should be a push for such a scenario and debating such is simply getting off topic.
It is simply just that it is a situation where people would make a judgment call based on their own upbringing and morals on what makes an acceptable marriage.

If there was a plebiscite 40-50 years ago, make no mistake the results would also likely to be maybe 95% or higher against SSM.
It would have been considered distasteful and frowned upon by most, as that is what they would have learned during their upbringing.

I am only stating that people are making their judgment based on the fact they have come to understand and respect same sex couples and this has come through normalising in society. Which is okay, in fact that is good. But it then the logical conclusion would be that there will be people where there has been less normlisation of same sex couples in their society and as such it goes against what they believe in.

I don't get how that is hard for people to understand.

But again... (broken record)
If the government believes SSM is the right thing for society, does it matter whether or not everyone agrees?
Surely like any change of a law people will just move on with their lives.