Get Up! releases emotionally provocative ad for Australian gay marriage
The grassroots advocacy organization Get Up! Action for Australia has released an emotionally moving ad arguing for the end of discrimination against gay marriage Down Under.
The non-profit Get Up! runs campaigns about a number of issues, including refugees and climate change. They have a petition on their site for same-sex marriage to be legalized.
The issue remains a highly divisive one in the country. According to a poll conducted by the Ambrose Centre for Religious Liberty, out of 1204 Australians surveyed, 49 percent support changes to the Marriage Act while 40 percent oppose it.
However, only 27 percent of those surveyed felt it was an important issue compared to issues like health and hospital services, cost of living, and more.
While gay marriage is still being debated in the United States, gay marriage became legal in Canada nationwide in 2005.
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BZ
Nov 25, 2011 at 7:29pm
For US readers, the Ambrose Centre for Religious Liberty is the Austailian equivalent to Focus on the Family or the FRC. It is steadfastly and actively opposed to same-sex marriage and they commissioned this poll as a way of bolstering their position. And yet, even they found that a plurality of Australians support legal same-sex marriage. The Australian, a notedly homophobic paper, is playing up the "nobody (who matters) cares" aspect of the poll.
But by definition, civil rights are not about popularity. They are fundamental rights extending to all persons in a society, regardless of how numerous is the affected population.
Marriage equality is about doing the right thing. You have to make time for doing the right thing. Otherwise, you may one day find that you'll have lived your whole life having never cared for justice or liberty; they'll just be empty words. I would think a Christian would want to think twice, and then again, before automatically assuming she or he was correct in opposing the love, committment, and fidelity of a male or female couple.
Bobbbbbbbbbbbb
Nov 26, 2011 at 9:55am
Is the ad really emotionally "provocative"? A really poor choice of words.
Additionally, the survey you mention has been widely panned as biased. Less biased surveys have found solid majorities (between 60% and 68%) in favour of marriage equality.