Barnaby Joyce is wrong on equality

 Barnacle Joyce Strikes Again

Regular readers of this blog or anyone who doesn’t watch only biased news will remember Barnaby Joyce the agriculture minister of Australia as the man who attacked an animal welfare group for exposing cruelty in the Australian wool industry, or perhaps the man who threatened to have Johnny Depp’s little terriers killed.

Amazingly Barnaby is still in the front bench and is still the agriculture minister; he is in the news again for his cruel and barbaric comments on equality. This is what he said:

“I don’t believe we should be redefining marriage.”

So we should repeal the change to the marriage act of 2004, no not really he is pretending that never happened.

-“(marriage) is not about equality”

That may be easy to say when you have the rights that others do not, marriage equality is exactly about equality.

He seems to be saying that if you change the marriage legislation then, it still doesn’t change marriage. Again I have to wonder about the discriminatory changes made in 2004 that excluded same-sex couples. But again he isn’t referring to that legislation only legislation that would allow equal rights. Also if it wouldn't change his interpretation of his religions current version of marriage (which it wouldn't) then why does he stand against it?

He is using the term traditional marriage, I don’t think 2004 to present makes something traditional, and let’s be honest here when he says traditional he means biblical.  I don’t think he is really advocating for traditional biblical marriage, just his interpretation of his religions current version of marriage. The marriage laws in Australia are supposed to be non-secular, religion has nothing to do with t, and well except for the fact the laws were changed in 2004 to prevent the practice of same sex marriages by those religions that accept the fact homosexuality is a natural expression of human sexuality.

He said “everybody doesn’t get everything they want.” Now hang on just one minute here, were talking about removing unconstitutional discriminatory legislation and giving equal rights to a persecuted minority, and that’s his response.  Perhaps if we were asking for retroactive compensation for all the ears we haven’t had equal rights that may be something a sane person might say. If we were even just demanding the return of want all the estimated taxes, levees and government fees we have paid since we were born gay without full rights, then maybe.  But we are not, we just want equal rights, and to not be discriminated against would be nice, that’s it, that’s our agenda.

We’re talking about the increased feelings of commitment, acceptance and the benefit that children may have when their parents are married, and his response is “everybody doesn’t get everything they want.”. When talking about removing governmental discrimination, that studies have shown leads to prejudice and discrimination in other areas of our society. When talking about the discrimination of homosexuals that can lead to depression, drug abuse, stress, anxiety, and suicide he said “everybody doesn’t get everything they want.” Lets just let the gravity of that sink in for a second...

He seems to be saying that those who are infertile or those who do not intend to have children should also be barred from marriage, but that would require changing the marriage laws again so he is contradicting himself.
 

He then tries to claim changing the legislation (which would have no effect on his interpretation of his religions current version of marriage) would somehow negatively affect children. When to contrary it is shown that married family’s children are more accepted in our society. He then rambles about children having an absolute right to know their biological parents, which has nothing to do with marriage equality at all. Funny children have that absolute right but if there born gay like I was and might one day want to marry the person they love, then he suddenly doesn’t care too much about their rights.

He seems to think it has been “thousands of years” since 2004, its 2015 now, um that’s very not right.

 

And apparently we aren’t allowed to end discrimination in Australia because other countries might incorrectly see us as “decadent”, oh seriously, this is beyond ridiculous. 

There is obviously no valid argument against marriage equality, those bigoted and homophobic politicians against equal rights should just resign if they cant do the right thing, and let us pass the laws and move on to other things already.

A good source for information, can be found on this Marriage Equality website.

Seriously it should be one of the first places to go before any politician voices their opinion about equality, might make some of their opinions a little more informed.