"Are gay people people? y/n": The Australian Marriage Equality Voluntary Postal Survey Thread

milkshake duck in reverse

paterson’s new gay-hate bill, hoo boy

^^ dis guy is hurting my personal brand yet again

Hey, look, i'm stuck sharing a surname with active criminal against humanity dud treasurer man

I feel sorry for me mate, Steve Abbott-Hitler.

fingers crossed

61.6% now we can start arguing about who has the right to buy a cake from whom.

not to be a debbie downer but 38.4% voting no still seems...very dismaying for someone in a queer little bubble

But I'll take what I can get. Hopefully a gif of Lyle Shelton or Tony Abbott crying shows up on the internet soon

someone like me* I should say

overall 61.6% is pretty good, though. I remember when prop 8 passed in california I read that 25% of residents of San Francisco voted for it. that's not a lot, but it still shocked me. I remember looking around when I would go out, thinking that 1 out of 4 people believed that my already-granted right to marriage should be taken away

spare a thought please for all those poor bakers who will have to make cakes for people they dislike

61% is lower than I'dve expected/liked, but my experience growing up, if we'd done this in the 80s it would have been at least in reverse. A lot has changed in the last 10 years and the country towns change a lot more slow.

Blaxland in NSW the most anti, and most of western Sydney resolutely against. Maybe greater proportions of Catholics? Seems to be what the census map of religion shows.

More like greater proportions of non-Caucasians with traditional ideas about marriage, I'd say.

A little close to generalising about non-Caucasians there, I’d be a touch more comfortable ascribing it to religious relief.

*belief, sorry

yes, I think religion plays a huge role

Yeah you're right. Blaxland is 20% Muslim and I imagine the yes vote was fairly low in Muslim communities. And I'm guessing that's generally why the yes vote was depressed in Western Sydney.

. @kevinandrewsmp : A Jewish baker should be able to deny an Islamic customer a wedding cake and vice versa. MORE: https://t.co/wX3tAbXkD4 pic.twitter.com/5lIekTmeRS

— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) November 15, 2017

Sorry for polluting the world just a little more with a Sky News link, but ffs

You guys have barely any Mormons or Southern Baptists though

We have western Sydney, though, knuckle draggers in the thunder dome.

Think Akron, with Parrots and worse traffic.

lol

61% is lower than I'dve expected/liked

given bigots lied wholesale and some major religious orgs actively instructed their people to oppose it, it’s a pretty good result tbh. but yes, it should have been 100%.

And still that fundamental obscenity which is a governmentally endorsed vote by the community on whether to magnanimously grant a basic human right to a long-repressed and ostracised minority.

yes

otm. turnbull will try to lap up praise but i honestly don’t think he knows what’s about to hit him.

the ugly attempted conversion of 'yes' to 'yes but'

90% of olds in my electorate voted yes fk yeah oldies

one big positive from today is that the electorates/states of a lot of the strongest LNP homophobes (Abbott, Andrews, Christensen, Abetz, Morrison et al) all came back with a majority yes

take the small victories y'all. I'm very happy about this news!

also I thought you were joking about a place called "blaxland" but ok nope

I reside in Batman, electorate-wise. I'm not sure how the names of electorates get decided but they aren't geographic.

mine is Corangamite

which is very nasty on toast

I'm in Mayo

hahah!

Nasty-on-Toast sounds like a village in Discworld

Tombot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Blaxland

I live in More More Moreland so I cant talk

Blaxland might be the name of an explorer, but Blacktown well and truly exists (and probably voted no). And was literally named thus because it was where "the blacks" lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktown

shhhh dont tell them about Coon cheese.

somewhat ironically, or perhaps appropriately, whenever you guys teach me a new Australian place name that happens to look like it might be a spondee (two stressed syllables, i.e. sunshine, doorway), I hear it in my head to the tune of the Shopkins theme.

Blaxland, blaxland!
Blacktown, Blacktown!
etc.

wow, in three posts i've lost the train of this thread

On the other hand, we do have a popular ice cream called Golden Gaytime

you made that up

Slogan: you can't have a Gaytime on your own

http://www.streetsicecream.com.au/Brand/Golden_Gaytime.aspx

It is both true and delicious.

they are delicious! but don't buy them this summer as they're manufactured by streets, who are cutting workers' wages by ~46%