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.
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.
