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

so fucking exhausted by this, and i'm not even the target. monotony and everyone, biggest massive hugs for the next few months. not sure what i/we can do but please speak up if you need anything.

our old local barista is in the new ME ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5pEmg4N_0

Turnbull says he will vote yes but won't commit to actively campaigning.

— Josh Taylor (@joshgnosis) September 7, 2017

fearless stuff from prime minister talcum murnbull

fucking useless piece of shit

Most pointless person ever

tbf it is quite impressive how he makes blamp strainer look like a progressive man of action

apropos of nothing but eric abetz went to the trouble of blocking me on Twitter last night because I accused him of supporting Kaiser Wilhelm II

funny how bigots don't like being called bigots innit

** YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY MY RIGHTS, I MUST BE ALLOWED TO SAY THAT HOMOSEXUALS ARE EVIL CHILD MOLESTERS **

you're a sick bigot, champ

** BLOCKED **

** LET ME SPEAK I MUST HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH LET ME HAVE MY SAY WE ARE NOT BIGOTS WE HAVE ~~~~~~REASONS~~~~~~ STOP SILENCING ME AND LET ME EXPLAIN MY REASONS **

so give me one single reason

** SHUT UP YOU FUCKING GAY **

every

single

time

I am very sorry for your pain / this is fucking hilarious

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/why-macklemore-why

that actually is hilarious

our land is girt by fkn idiots

"I want to take my boys to watch the footy and I don't want the betting ads jammed down their throat, I don't want the gay marriage message jammed down their throat at the football,"

honestly, watching these hateful bigots cry about their own tactic backfiring on them is the closest thing we have to schadenfreude up to this point

pauline hanson demanding johnny farnham = vmic

on wednesday i am wearing a rainbow tie and rainbow sunglasses and rainbow umbrella and rainbow shoelaces to work, and anyone who moans can fuck themselves in the face

not that i expect anyone at my work to object, the ceo and every single person who matters is vocally and aggressively pro-equality

if they're really so pro-equality they'll fuck themselves in the face anyway then

...

btw re this:

# Is the bill in its final form?
No. It's still a draft and is open to consultation.

# So how do you know what's in it? Will it be real equality, or will it be full of exemptions to protect bigots? Will it accommodate trans and intersex people?
We don't know.

# Will it be finalised before the survey commences?
It doesn't look likely.

if they're really so pro-equality they'll fuck themselves in the face anyway then

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Saturday, 11 November 2017 09:24 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the fuck does that even

I was amused by AA's jarring 1-second turn from "fuck these people!" to "don't fuck them, they're lovely"

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.