Atralia has voted to approve gay marriage after a majory of the populatn voted 'y' a drawn-out and ntroversial postal vote on same-sex unns.
Contents:
- ATRALIA APPROV GAY MARRIAGE EQUALY VOTE
- ATRALIANS' SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE WEAKENS NEW POLL
- WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
ATRALIA APPROV GAY MARRIAGE EQUALY VOTE
Media ptn, 'Gay people are gog to have the bt weddgs'Polls did well - pared to the lik of Brex and the 2016 US printial electn - part bee the turnout was so high (approximately 80%, pared to 61% the Irish gay marriage referendum). Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level, and last year reached the 70% mark for the first time. Risg natnal support for legal same-sex marriage reflects steady creas among most subgroups of the populatn, even those who have tradnally been the most ristant to gay marriage.
Amerins who report that they attend church weekly rema the primary mographic holdout agast gay marriage, wh 40% favor and 58% opposed. A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn. Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults.
Faced wh this choice, Atralians overwhelmgly give prry to the rights of the child, not the rights of homosexual men.
ATRALIANS' SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE WEAKENS NEW POLL
Atralians need to know that gay 'marriage' and gay parentg is a package al which discrimat agast future children. “Same-sex marriage creat a clash between upholdg the human rights of children wh rpect to their g to beg and the fay stcture which they will be reared, and the claims of homosexual adults who wish to marry a same-sex partner.
Dr van Gend nclud, “This study aims to fd out which claim is given prry by Atralians when they are 'forced to choose' between the rights of the child and the claims of homosexual adults. That means they do not unrstand that laws for homosexual marriage clu the right for two men to create a fay by surrogacy or adoptn – wh the nsequence that any state laws which prently prohib same-sex adoptn or surrogacy will be overturned. “If every fourth Atralian fails to unrstand that gay marriage, gay adoptn and gay surrogacy are a package al, then the public do not know what is buyg when signs up to laws for gay marriage”, Dr van Gend said.
“A send pot of nfn unvered by our survey, and of ncern for the qualy of public thkg on this issue, is that almost a third of Atralians (30%) do not unrstand that there is a logil patibily between children's rights and homosexual adults' claims”.
WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
“Of the 65% of Atralians who did unrstand that we are forced to choose between children's rights and homosexual adults' claims, is enuragg to see that the vast majory of them give prry to the child:. A full 36% of Atralians felt “very strongly” that a child's rights should e first, while only 12% felt “very strongly” that the homosexual uple's rights should e first. “How do that strength of sentiment for the rights of a child square wh the apparent public support for homosexual 'marriage'?
That means we should never take serly any opn poll that asks about marriage rights for homosexual adults whout askg about the loss of a child's birth-right to a mum and a dad. "Our survey shows that, when you do put both sis of the gay marriage and parentg issue to Atralians, 'gay marriage' gets the thumbs down and the rights of the child take prry. That is a very signifint new sight to public sentiment on homosexual marriage and parentg Atralia, ” Dr van Gend nclud.
Image source, Getty ImagTwenty years after Tasmania beme the last remag Atralian state to crimalise male homosexualy, the untry is havg s say on same-sex marriage.