Marriage Equality...

Not same sex marriage. It may seem like semantics to you. Do you remember our acronym? LGBTQI. Or at the very least LGBT. That T stands for Trans. People who don't fit the standard legal terms for gender- your basic binary male or female. Or maybe they want to, but the law says coz they were called a female at birth, they are still female, and therefore can't marry another female, even though they are now male.. make sense??? Or, if the trans person in question has had a sex change and is now legally male, but still likes men, then he can't marry his boyfriend.
So, when marriage equality is being discussed in the senate and house of reps and the politicians who don't care and don't know any better talk about same sex marriage, they are leaving out a whole chunk of our community. A chunk which includes friends of mine. A chunk I am quite passionate about supporting.
Also - Equality is what we're fighting for here. not something different or special. just equal. We don't want segregation, we want the same as you. well, personally i want the state to realise that it should be separate from the church and that if you'd like to have a religious wedding then go right ahead but everyone who wants to be considered married, whether gay straight or otherwise, needs to have a state sanctioned civil union. everyone equal. I don't want to make a church have to marry me. i just want the same as what you have (and what the declaration of human rights says I should already have - article 16...)
Poli's don't all suck, but too many of them just don't seem to care.