Comments on: Magda Szubanski: I never expected to see this in my lifetime /news/national-news/magda-szubanski-never-expected-see-lifetime/163191 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 02:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Mercedes /news/national-news/magda-szubanski-never-expected-see-lifetime/163191#comment-599303 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 02:58:14 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=163191#comment-599303 In reply to P..

By all means say NO for yourself, but why spoil it for the rest of us by imposing your bitterness on those who do want to marry the person they love! For your information I have been waiting 35 years to marry my sweetheart!!

]]> By: P. /news/national-news/magda-szubanski-never-expected-see-lifetime/163191#comment-599296 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:48:55 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=163191#comment-599296 VOTE NO.
I’m a Gay man and was an activist at the turn of the century when much of the work on same-sex relationship laws was done. As soon as I received the Marriage Survey I voted NO. Marriage is a failed way to recognise relationships. It is full of flaws and encumbered with too much history that is hostile to homosexuals. Like it or not, the religions will always have influence on how marriage plays out in Society. Heterosexual society, families and friends will of course apply pressure to their gay loved ones to take the “highest form” of recognition. Sure, there are alternate means for recognition but I believe that marriage will become the driving force in shaping gay culture around relationships. Things like ‘a longer relationship is always a better one’ should be challenged. Should the end (or divorce) always be a battle? You can bet the dark side will collect the divorce stats. There will be reinforcement of the ‘one must be the man and the other the woman’ view of same-sex couples. Open relationships could feel pressure from marriage’s traditional teaching of lifelong monogamy. The concepts of cheating or infidelity could return to traditional meanings. Marriage inevitably puts one person in a weaker position, that’s how it was set up. Marriage is really about property and ownership. The list goes on. Do homosexuals really want to take on all this rubbish after years of trying to get free of it? Is this really the best relationship recognition we can get? We should make use of the registered partner (or equivalent) systems put in place by the States. Our energies should directed to plugging the FEW gaps where there is disadvantage between marriage/registered partners/de-facto. They then become a green field for us to express our relationships as we wish. We can then get on with what we have been successfully doing all along – making it up as we go. Sometimes equality doesn’t mean having the same.

]]> By: Tony Rogers /news/national-news/magda-szubanski-never-expected-see-lifetime/163191#comment-599250 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:41:38 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=163191#comment-599250 After all of Magda Szubanski’s fantastic work for the Rainbow Community, and her magic and strong appearance on ABC’s ‘Q&A’ last night, I’d like to propose that Magda be *our* superhero: SzuperMagda ????????

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