Dear Is Mise,

Australians by voting Yes for fairness, commitment, love -
have taken a positive step forward toward a more
equitable society.

There is light at the end of the tunnel.

thinkabit,

Personally, I don't think a simple majority is all that should ever be needed. If that were the case, then interracial marriage should be banned if that was what the majority wanted. Similarly, if the results of this survey were reversed, that would not mean that same-sex marriage should not be legislated for. The analogies are endless (vaccine effectiveness and safety, you name it...). What counts for more is what the evidence says/suggests. Not everyone can be experts in everything.

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Joe,

In all but 17 electorates, the 'Yes' vote won:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-15/same-sex-marriage-results-ssm/9145636?sf170340146=1

"Hopefully, this will herald the end of all discrimination in this country and we can get on with the task of creating true equality".

I should think that this will be only the beginning of serious discrimination against people opposed to fake marriage, because that is what has happened in other countries who have voted for it, or had it forced on them.

Nobody forced Australians to vote "Yes"
they decided that all by themselves to
ensure that the time has come to end the
discrimination against same sex couples
by the laws of this land.

This country can only improve as a result.

The losers are clutching at straws.

thinkabit; what are you going on about.
ttbn; what is a biblical memory?
joe; the goat cheese mob must have all gone bush, the bush voted yes as well, by a big margin.
leoj; loser!, its all the work of those commie, pinko, greenie watermelons you incessantly prattle on about. loser!

Issy; I totally agree.

Foxy; Its time to move on, the No's copped a thumping defeat on this, as expected. The out of touch bigoted Kevin Andrews wants hate legislation enacted to protect his desperate band of supporters. That will be the excuse trotted out, the right to hate, the right to be a bigot, the right to be a racists, Andrews wants it in law.

Rusty; $8 per vote, $100 million buys a lot of 'Ajax' to clean up the Coalitions mess. Pity so much had to be spent to satisfy an insignificant hard right minority within the government.

AJ; The last word, spot on as usual.

Something for the multi-cultis and diversity-lovers: NSW electorates with the highest numbers of NEB immigrants had the lowest yes votes. Labor seats, of course, where the MPs are always sucking up to Muslim constituents and the more conservative immigrants who stick to their traditions. Might see some changes in those seats in the future, now that fake marriage will be a goer. The luvvies might have to make some serious choices between their open-borders attitudes and their political backsides, because there is no way that the people they try to curry favour with are going to accept SSM, and there are more of them arriving all the time.