The Human Cost of Atralia’s Gay Marriage Plebisce | Human Rights Watch

Contents:

• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• THE HUMAN COST OF ATRALIA’S GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE: WHEN TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IS A BAD THG
• ATRALIA SENATE STOPS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• THE HIGH ST OF GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• ATRALIA IS HAVG A PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE -- HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

Whout the Nick Xenophon Team's support for the legislatn, the Government nnot rely on the crossbench, leavg the stg vote up to Labor the is holdg off on a fal cisn but has been raisg ser ncerns about a plebisce through the Opposn Lear Bill Shorten and other senr MPs and party has also been privately briefg reporters that will eventually block the there is a polil hch bee once a plebisce is off the table, the Labor Party is unlikely to be able to force a ee vote of both ho s are fears that uld punt the issue off to the next term of parliament, ensurg there is no prospect of gay people beg able to marry before the next do mean for voters?

THE HUMAN COST OF ATRALIA’S GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

Whether that was accurate or not, that is how many the gay muny felt. Dpe the emotnal turmoil and pa, many LGBTIQ people went to that vote feelg, the entire mpaign for a y vote was about hearts and mds —  actively pulled at the heartstrgs of Atralians who had a gay child, uncle, niece or work mate.

Returng to Pearson's central premise — that a Voice would rce racism Atralia — let's look at the only parison we have: the same sex marriage end homophobia? ”But, 2013, the High Court found that marriage the Constutn clus “a marriage between persons of the same sex” and that “unr the Constutn and feral law as now stands, whether same sex marriage should be provid for by law is a matter for the feral Parliament” ma clear the feral ernment had the power to enact marriage more and more untri began legalisg gay marriage, Atralia was left behd. ”Mr Turnbull has prevly been an advote on the issue (his electorate of Wentworth Sydney’s eastern suburbs has a high ncentratn of homosexual rints), nfirmg both he and wife Lucy are favour of same-sex due to a number of nservative aln MPs strongly held views, a plebisce is seen as an alternative PLEBISCITEAfter the failure last year to ph the plebisce through parliament, yterday's party room meetg sentially voted favour of a back up plan - a postal plebisce.

“The ernment is absolutely mted to keep fah wh the mment that we ma to the Atralian people and that is to give Atralian people a say on whether or not the fn of marriage should be changed, ” Senator Cormann more: Ele Catholic schools fend gay marriageWHAT WOULD BE NEEDED FOR THE PLEBISCITE TO 'PASS'?

THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE: WHEN TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IS A BAD THG

It also provis a platform for those opposed to misrm the public and air anti-gay views. A prehensive “no” vote uld ph the issue back s, siar to what happened wh the Atralian republic bate after the 1999 only circu-breaker would be a swch om the Coaln to a Labor ernment, which would likely have the numbers to get gay marriage over the le. CONSEQUENCESA plebisce would give anti-gay mpaigners the biggt stage they have ever had, acrdg to quot US rearch, which has shown that the mental health of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people suffered signifintly durg referendum bat on marriage LGBTI people who experienced a US state referendum on marriage equaly there was a 37 per cent crease mood disorrs, a 42 per cent crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248 per cent generalised anxiety disorrs.

ATRALIA SENATE STOPS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

A stand-alone plebisce on same-sex marriage uld st the Atralian enomy more than half a billn dollars, acrdg to new pots:PwC mollg fds gay marriage plebisce would rult $280m lost productivyThat st on top of $158m for natnwi mpaignOther sts clud impact on mental health and wellbeg of LGBTI munyCost would be rced to $113m if the plebisce was held at same time as electnMollg unrtaken by acuntg firm PwC says would rult $280 ln of lost productivy, on top of the st of nng the natnwi mpaign, timated at $158 ln by the Atralian Electoral st to the muny of fundg the two mpaigns for and agast the proposal would st $66 ln, while the impact on the mental health and wellbeg of the gay and lbian muny amounts to $20 Atralia chief executive Le Sayers said the real st of the plebisce was three tim what has been quoted by the Feral Government.

Michael Kirby, a former judge of the High Court, who is gay and a same-sex marriage supporter, scribed the postal survey as "unacceptable" and "irregular".

Neher do Atralia have laws—as other untri do—that curtail the right to ee exprsn or hib eedom of associatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. In Atralia, means gay and lbian brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, and neighbors have to ask their k, their muny, and total strangers, “Are you OK wh me gettg married? And while polls suggt that many Atralians are ready for same-sex marriage, holdg a plebisce giv a tac legimacy to objectns that clu equatg homosexualy wh btialy to sre tactics claimg that marriage equaly will lim relig eedom.

THE HIGH ST OF GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

Atralia don’t yet have gay marriage. We on the rrect si of the bate here ll “marriage equaly, ” rather than “gay marriage, ” to unrsre that is a human rights issue and discrimatory to thk otherwise.

ATRALIA IS HAVG A PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE -- HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS

Bis, today’s landspe of genr fluidy etc, not everyone a same-sex relatnship intifi as gay. It is tertg tim Atralian polics for gay rights.

Already policians are warng that they don’t want the blood of suicid gay teenagers on their hands.

In an unexpected turn of events, gay activists are celebratg the likely feat of the plebisce enablg legislatn. This is not jt about gay rights, ’s about human rights and basic human digny too. The ernment’s proposed marriage plebisce has been livered a h blow wh openly gay Liberal senator Dean Smh clarg he will not vote for .