Dear Lexi,

<<We're talking about changes that should be made to the Marriage Act as it currently stands.>>

Repealing this law is a legitimate change to the way it currently stands.

<<Because it does privilege heterosexual relationship while undermining same-sex relationship recognition.>>

This heterosexual privilege embedded in the current Marriage Act, is only a symptom, one symptom that is only the tip of the iceberg, not the root of the problem.

The root of the problem is that the state attempts to define and compartmentalise us and our personal relationships.

Dear Yuyutsu,

My apologies, I've re-read your previous post and
I had misunderstood you earlier.

You've raised an excellent point.

Thank You.

Yuyutsu - The root of the problem is that the state attempts to define and compartmentalise us and our personal relationships.

No argument from me there, its simply part and parcel of the yearning for absolute power that is inextricably associated with any form of authority. We do (collectively) however ALLOW the state to have power, whereas a far more reasoned approach would be to place very clearly defined limits on the power invested in anyone. One obvious way of doing this is to demand Citizen Initiated Referenda a la Switzerland & some of the US states. Note that Senator Madigan already has a bill to this effect on the table and I understand he has support from a number of individuals both in the Senate & within the House of Representatives. Obviously there will be concerted opposition from the vast majority of elected representatives but its to every voters advantage to demand their federal representatives to support this initiative.