Australia votes ‘yes’ for Gay Marriage

61.6% of Australians voted ‘yes’ for gay marriage. This is annoying the conservative Christian politicians who are already trying to create legislation to protect the ‘religious freedoms’ of those who don’t want to supply services to gay people.

With wide variation in electorates, the vote is likely going to irritate some of our conservative religious populations, too. Almost 80% in the Sydney electorate voted yes, while the electorate with among the highest Muslim population in Australia voted No (70% no, 30% yes). Surprising for a religion of peace.

It’s time for gay marriage. And it’s time for politicians to more properly align their policies with their constitutes. Donald Trump and the Republican party’s conservative human-right violations go hand in hand with conservative Christian and Muslim populations. If I were a strategist republican I would not be trying to alienate the Muslim population but bring them on board. They are much more aligned with conservative politics than any progressive cause is. I think both sides of the political spectrum need to wake up to this.

Updated On: 11/14/17 at 08:58 PM

Multicultural non-assimilation works great for superficial cultural characteristics. We get to experience amazing art, music, language, food. I very much like that in Australia people have brought their cultures here and made our country better as a result.. But yes, when it comes to fundamental human rights we need people to have the expectation of assimilation. I don’t want to live in Saudi Arabia. To be fair though, there are locals that would share the same views. Though clearly on average the results of the marriage survey show that there are likely some migrant groups with a disproportionate number of homophobes than the general population. Exactly as we would expect given their cultural and especially religious upbringing.



The people that that suffer the most are the poor gay children of the migrant families who remain closeted or get married. I know many.

Updated On: 11/14/17 at 11:12 PM

222disneyland said: "And yes I know not politically correct at all. And very racist but had to say it"

Criticism of Islam is not racist. Religion is a chosen thing, at least for adults, and therefore it is absolutely appropriate to judge people based on their religious beliefs and affiliations. I certainly expect that many religious people judge me for being an atheist.

I didn't realise till I was told last weekend at my first gay wedding that there are TWO laws regarding this contentious subject.The Australian Government law [passed]and the Church law [still in discussion]. The Catholics will never agree and the Uniting will be voting in July.

The ceremony I attended was in a church with the Minister doing all the religious bits but needed to have a Celebrant there to actually conduct the marriage part and declare them Husband and Husband.

My friends had both bases covered because they wanted a church wedding but I would think that Celebrants are going to be very busy--hope so.