Australian Census: What Australians think of marriage equality

We Australians are a weird mob.

 

Australia is really secular sometimes and then has the occasional bizarre religious moment, e.g. the Chaplaincy in schools program, which is really strongly disagree with. Our generation is really very secular particularly.

That's quite an interesting survey they did. It's pretty clear that the majority of Australians are in favour of gay marriage, but it's only working it's way through Labor party state conferences now. I'm quite glad!

 

You Australians are awesome

 

They say a lot of things, many of which they never deliver on. The things the people want are rejected and the things the government wants are installed. The unhidden puppet-master that keeps Labor in power, Bob Brown, the openly gay leader and founder of the Green party, and can push the issue and he even says that he does not support same-sex marriage. And yes our PM is very opposed to the idea as well, even though one of her senior federal senators is openly lesbian, Penny Wong, has a partner and is having a child with her. So the likeliness of debate is very slim indeed.

And those rumours about that red-haired menace have been circulating for a while now, but it wouldn't surprise me if they ended up being accurate. Every public appearance with that blundering imbecile Mathieson has at best been very distant.

 

what does smoking pot or not have to do with gay marriage support? that just seems really really really really really really really really really random.

 

Just one of the random whacky things that only a census can reveal.
And I bet Gillard doesn't give a shit about whether same-sex marriage is legal or not. The woman who is not religious and is living with a man who she is not married to bases her beliefs regarding marriage in "tradition", I call bullshit. She thought the public wanted to hear that she did not support SSM, so she went with it. Although I despise Abbott, at least we know who he is, albeit this is a conservative christian nutter who feels "threatened" by homosexuals.
If democracy started working as it should and our elected officials actually represented the views of the majority SSM would go ahead. But then again the majority are obsessed with "stopping the boats" and are woefully indifferent to the plight of asylum seekers. So either way we're screwed. Wow that was a long rant.