Allow Marriage Equality in Australia

There"s no business like the No-case business in the national debate over legalisation of same-sex marriage. Opponents to changing the laws have worked hard at turning the basic postal survey question on extending marriage to single-gender couples into a many-tiered tower of issues. They see the question as being like one of those tall, multi-layered wedding cakes they insist, without evidence, Australian bakers will be sued for not selling to gay couples. And some on the No side have really let it rip with their imaginations by roping in changes which have never been sought by mainstream marriage equality campaigners and thinking up a few nobody had considered. IT"S A RECRUITMENT DRIVE "And we know, everybody knows that it is wrong, but they"re after our young ones, that"s what they"re after." - Margaret court IT"S WAR Anti-discrimination laws would be "weaponised" and result in "legal warfare" against those opposed to SSM. - Senator Cory Bernardi IT"S IN FACT STAR WARS "This is our only hope, this is our Obi Wan Kenobi " we must win this debate." - Senator Matt Canavan LOVE IS A BRIDGE QUESTION: If we change the marriage laws in Australia then it could lead eventually to people being able to marry objects such as " the Harbour Bridge? ABETZ: Why not? Why not. Look, I would like to think that that is taking the argument to the limit, but the issue is if we are judging this solely on a person"s view of what love is to them "" - Senator Eric Abetz CONVERT THE KIDS "Should people be forced to go to conversion therapy? No, absolutely not. Now, children " they are under the care and responsibility of their parents, so I think if someone"s a minor, it is up to their parents. And I think parental rights should be respected." - Lyle Shelton of the Australian Christian Lobby TAILOR MADE "A nation where anyone who chooses not to worship at the altar of homosexuality and gender fluidity will be run out of town? I fear for the Christian cake-makers and tailors who chose not to be involved in gay and transgender marriage ceremonies." - Columnist Mark Latham TAILOR MADE DRESSES "The school told my son that he could wear a dress to school next year if he wanted," - Cella Whit, incorrectly, in an anti-SSM TV ad PAID MUMS "We may be looking at commercial surrogacy and things like that," because for married males wanting children "the only option would be to look at surrogacy". - Liberal lawyer Karina Okotel GROUP EFFORT "There is actually now a petition been put together for the House of Representatives by Green activists to legally recognise multi-member unions " Now I said that would happen." - Senator Cory Bernardi in 2013 GAY ACT-TIVISTS "Asking primary school and grade seven children to act out as if they were in a homosexual relationship and how they would interact with each other, I know that is something that most parents would find inappropriate." - Senator Eric Abetz. LOOK OVER THERE "When same-sex marriage was legalised in Massachusetts, children were given literature including that said it"s a myth that marriage is about children and a myth that children are best served when raised by a mother and father." - Karina Okotel