Belly, I get so frustrated with people who keep insisting that opposition to SSM is always based on religious grounds. Many people, like myself, opposite it on social and biological grounds. I am not at all religious and neither are many other people who hold the same view.
As I stated before, equality of marriage means the right of any consulting adults to marry, regardless of number, relationship etc.
SSM only gave marriage rights to gay couples who were not related and only between two people. There are millions of men in the world with more than one wife, who would love that right to extend to western countries. There are adult related couples who don’t have the right to marry. So no, it’s not about equality.
Certainly gay couples should have to right to a legal form of union, as should all other adult couples/groups but marriage has always been about inheritance and paternity and that means children, family and like many others, I believe it should have remained that way.

Dear Big Nana,

Same sex marriage the way it was presented and voted on
was about equality. That is allowing same sex people
to have their relationships recognised legally under
the law - giving them a choice to marry if they so
wished. Polygamy was not being asked for. And as our
PM stated - it was not up for consideration. I guess
in all fairness to your raising this topic - it may be
something Australia may consider in the future - if
enough people demand this recognition. Who knows?
We'll have to wait and see what happens next. In the
meantime - the same sex marriage legislation has passed.
And all the fuss seems to have died down.

ttbn,

I'm so sorry that you find me so offensive.
I hope that I don't upset you too much.
However, for you information - I am a
female - a wife, mother, grandmother,
sister, aunt, and much much more. I get on
with most people - and I try my hardest not
to offend. However I do tend to throw down
the gauntlet when challenged. You say that
you've not met anyone like me before?
Surely that's not a bad thing. It might even
be educational for you. Afterall variety is
the spice of life - so they say. Admittedly
too much spice can give you the runs.
(I'm allergic to too much spice). Anyway,
Thanks for your continued contributions on
my personality in this forum. Your interest
in me is appreciated. And I'm glad that
you do read my posts. That's a start.

ttbn,

You claim that 95% of gay couples have decided not to marry?
How do you know that? Could you give us some evidence please?

Also - do you know what percentage of hetereo couples are not
married?

Statistics often are difficult things to come by. And they
don't always tell the full story.

Belly,

You don’t have to respond to me or anyone or else; particularly if you are insulted by the truth. Some people don’t handle the truth at all well; they would rather be lied to, apparently. Some people even call the truth “trolling”; they are the really ignorant ones who have copied adolescent onliners who don’t know that a troll is actually a mythical Norse gremlin.

Your ‘responses’ to my posts are merely disagreements with anything I say, so you will be doing me a favour. Thankyou.

ttbn,

In internet slang a troll is someone who purposely
goes out of their way to upset people to sew
discord by posting inflammatory, extraneous, and
off-topic messages in an online community such as
discussion forums with the intent of provoking
readers (read angry reactions) to create conflict.

And they tend to do this with anyone whose views
disagrees with their own. The internet is notorious
for attracting these sort of people - who thrive
on anonymity - and feel that they can get away with
things they probably wouldn't normally do in the
real world.

With people like that you can ignore them (as Belly
is going to do) or make light of the situation (as I've
often done - or insult them back), or unmask them, or
don't provide a platform for them, or create a unified
community, or simply listen, and if all else fails -
use the Moderators and online tools.