Being married is not going to change certain attitudes.
However it will bring institutional kinds of
recognition which was after all what the intent of all this
was. Of course it won't change the small minority's
views in our society. People who are homophobic are going to
stay homophobic. However, who cares about them. They are on
the wrong side of history and will end up on the dung heap
where they rightly belong. They can rant and rave - but their
voices are like farts in a blizzard - and just as effective
now. They've been out-voted and we can now ignore them.

Yay!

Poor leoj, Australia's answer to Heinrich Himmler, another member of the rabid right with a very bitter pill to swallow over what is the triumph of the yes vote, and subsequent new laws, on same sex marriage. That pill must be the size of Ayers Rock considering the difficulty the crazies are having swallowing it. The poor little sods have been left climbing the walls of the asylum with a total loss of reality. Get a grip on it boys, and then go to town, but such incoherent rantings and ravings will not cut the mustard, today or ever.

Toni, as far as I have Been able to assertain, the results of the survey do not specify which age groups voted yes or no, only how many voted.
So you cannot say that most of the no voters were old because we don't know. Certainly we can't rely on random surveys because they were all very wrong about the level of support for SSM. Remember how all surveys predicted a 70% support but the vote actually only came up with 48% support of the whole community.

Foxy, you are wrong, 40% isn't a small majority. 5% is a small majority and that's the number of people we had this whole upheaval over.

Big Nana,

Here are the facts from the Australian Bureau of
Statistics:

61.6% of the Australian population votes YES.

38.4% of the Australian population voted NO.

Of all eligible Australians who expressed a view on -
"Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples
to marry?" The MAJORITY indicated that the law should
be changed with 61.6% (7,817,247) responding YES.
And, 38.4% (4,873,987) responding NO.

Nearly 8 out of 10 eligible Australians (79.5%) expressed
their view.

ALL states and territories recorded a MAJORITY YES response.
And only 17 of the 150 Federal Electoral Divisions recorded a
MAJORITY NO response.

And that's the facts!

Foxy,

"61.6% of the Australian population votes YES.

38.4% of the Australian population voted NO."

That ain't the facts as the whole population didn't vote, nor did the whole of the eligible to vote population do so.