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By Stuart Horrex, published 1/9/2016I, like my fiancé, am an Australian citizen, so the natural question is, why should we be forced to leave our own country to get married?
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You have as much chance of getting SSM as anyone else in a democracy has of achieving their goal. You put forth your case, lobby the appropriate people, and it goes to a vote. This would happen with any case put forward. One of the options in a democracy is to hold a people's vote. When you present your case you do so knowing that this is one of the options. By accepting the principles of a democracy you also accept that your issue may be decided by a people's vote.
Nowhere in amongst those principles of democracy is there a guarantee that you will not be hurt in any part of the process. The process has to be such that it is equally fair to all concerned and a plebiscite is equally fair to all concerned. The democratic principles give everyone the chance to speak their mind. it does not put caveats on what you can say during the debate.
If you do not like what is said to you then you should appeal to any laws that we have in place which can control what is said in debates. Similarly if you get bashed or have acid poured into your drink or your livelihood is threatened etc. then we have laws which are there to protect you. You are only entitled to the same protections as everyone else though and not more protection because you are homosexual.
Crying victim is very manipulative. You have all the protections that anyone can expect in our society so you are no more a victim than anyone else who tries to change legislation. You want the politicians to decide this issue not because it is a better method of applying the principles of democracy but because you are afraid of being hurt. You want the government to give you what no one is entitled to. You want to privileged treatment because you are homosexual. This is 'slippery slope' stuff.