MY THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY

MY STAND ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY 

The majority of citizens within a Country, State, Territory and even an individual Electorate within these; can and do change many things about the way we are governed and the way we treat our fellow human beings. 

That doesn't mean that an individual who disagrees with some things needs to change those things in their personal lives, they need to accept that the personal lives of individuals and how an individual chooses to express their own sexuality is that persons private right.

Denying people the right to marry because you don't express your sexuality in the same way they do is wrong to me, very wrong. What someone does with their own body as a consenting adult with another consenting adult is really no one elses' business.

It is only when assaults and violence take place between human beings - regardless of their form of sexual expression does society needs to step in.

It is literally a waste of time and money for society to spend its' limited resources stopping people from loving each other just because of the way they choose to express their sexuality.

It is not only practising and non-practising heterosexuals who pay taxes and have the right to vote in our country, Australia in my case, but also all those other citizens who express their sexuality in ways other than heterosexual expression.

Our Marriage Act not only directly conflicts with our Anti-Discrimination legislation but it also directly conflicts with Section 116 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia.

"the Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth."

Interesting debate/discussion/academic view of this issue of the separation of church and state can be found at http://www.hsnsw.asn.au/MaxWallace.html

Meglomaniacal Ignorance of the Queensland Government - OMCG's and the ill conceived VLAD (Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act 2013 Qld)

https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/Bills/54PDF/2013/VicLawAssDisB13.pdf

I think we need to remind the Queensland citizens that this issue isn't one of NOT addressing the criminality of the OMCG's (Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs), it is one of excessive unnecessary promulgation of statues and the associated tax payer funded costs of that promulgation process. The legislation and power to do what is required to address the current surge in criminal activities by OMCG's already exists at both state and federal levels. The Qld government is wasting your money by doing this and their ill conceived statute is merely creating bigger problems for the other jurisdictions within Australia by forcing the OMCG's out of Qld into other areas. If the Qld government was truly interested, and took and actual educated and informed approach to addressing the criminality of these OMCG's they could have done the honourable thing and led the way Nationally by forming a Joint Task Force between Qld Law Enforcement and the Australian Crime Commission (ACC former NCA) who have specific charters for the investigation of Organised Crime. This statute is nothing more than a vote winning self interested megalomaniacal strategy, more than likely directed by the former Commissioner of the AFP - Commissioner Passion Flower Keelty. If the Qld government were truly interested in pubic safety they would have approached the ACC developed the joint task force and had available to them the resources and legislative framework to do the job needed properly. This would also have established the capacity for every other jurisdiction (State & Territory) in Australia to follow suit and for us to develop a National solution to the criminality of OMCG's. Campbell has fed bullshit by someone and my hypothesis on that someone is former AFP Commissioner Passion Flower Keelty. Happy to develop that hypothesis further, however on the facts available this is my hypothesis as of this date. You as Qld tax payesr are being ripped off an conned into believing that this new statute is the answer to the threat posed by OMCG's to public safety in Qld. It is not the answer.

What the Queensland Government has done could have been achieved at a fraction of the price by announcing a JTF with the ACC and providing the necessary human and physical resources to make it a reality. They could have put the funds expended on the promulgation of a useless grandstanding statute into the actual operational costs of a solution; a JTF. They've merely displayed their ignorance of the existing capacity of our system of justice to deal with this issue. This new statute is an embarrassing reminder of the idiots we elect to govern the management of our limited resources and the unsuitability of those we entrust to manage our public safety. They could have the same if not greater affect on this issue of the criminality of OMCG's, not only in Qld, but nationwide and have some leadership on addressing this issue. Instead they wasted Qld tax payer monies and have egg on their faces for being ignorant megalomaniacs.

Politics is NOT a sport.

I am so completely irked by the people who sit back on their derrière's and let our government of the day do things that are plain and simply WRONG.

In fact there is a direct correlation between all those management and senior clergy within the faith based organisations in Australia and the Australian people. One stood by while powerless human beings, the students of their faith based education systems, were abused and traumatised by those among them in the names of their very own organisations and did nothing to help or save those human beings.

Nothing different to the citizens of Australia letting those among us who we've elected to government or who are employed as bureaucrats within our system of government abuse and traumatise powerless human beings in the name of the very country we employ to manage our resources and the land we now know as Australia. Yes our Governments are employed by us through our vote and tax dollars.

So how will we be judged for sitting back on our derrière's and putting our heads in the sand and denying any responsibility for what is happening in our names to those refugees held in detention Centres on Christmas Island, Manus Island and the plethora of other detention centres within and outside our area of responsibility?

So our inaction is tacit consent to what is being done to these human beings in our name. No plausible deniability in that, just plain old guilty of inaction with no legal stone to hide under.

And what's with this bizarre attitude of you can't criticise the government you voted for? This ain't a sport! You want loyalty to a sporting team, that's admirable. But blind loyalty to a government or a party you voted for is merely self interest, ego and ignorance all rolled into one.

I implore the citizens of Australia to get off their well nourished derrière's and be objective and use the brains and education you are so privileged to possess. STOP being lazy, conformist, heartless fools and DO SOMETHING - anything - but DON'T BE SILENT, DON'T DEFEND THE GOVERNMENTS ACTIONS JUST BECAUSE YOU VOTED FOR THEM.