I have two friends, Aimee McDonald and Stacey Malacari that I have known since I started high school in Rockingham, back when I was 14. Through our high school years, I formed great friendships with both of these girls that have lasted, though when we were all at high school together they never knew each other.
It wasn't until we'd left school that one day they finally met, and it wasn't long before they were falling rapidly in love with one another and are now the strongest, most beautiful, make you smile just by looking at them so in love kind of couple. I've never seen a couple so in love, so happy, so committed to one another. Perhaps I never will.
But they're two women.
Which sadly, poses a problem in this backwards society we live in. Perth is lagging behind the rest of Australia, not just in timezones but also in ideas. Being gay is not a crime, it is simply just a part of who a person is; like being straight is.
Why should right winged politicians who haven't progressed their ideals from the conservative 50's they were born in be able to legally prevent their formal ceremony of love? Or socially condemn those who are gay?
Something like one in ten people are gay, though this statistic may be wrong as so many people will not come out due to the fear that social discourse and traditions has implanted. Being gay is not a sin.
Homosexuality has been prominent since the beginning of human development. Politicians, Kings and world leaders have been too afraid to reveal their true desires and homosexuality due to the pressure of the God's above (that we don't know exist) and how society has cultivated those morals. Imagine having to lead life forever terrified of someone finding your secret and propelling it into a moralistic world.
Think of how many children and adults have gone through divorce in a family due to a husband or wife being gay; they have tried to do "right: by society, and while they may love their partner and of course adore their children, divorce is another act our world wishes to avoid, to blanket. So who has won? Society or another broken family?
Sure, there is the biological issue that a same sex couple cannot procreate. Perhaps we need to digest that this world is overpopulated, that many straight people (including myself) never want children, and that many straight couples who do start families probably never should have. We're no strangers to unwanted babies or insufficiently supported parents here in Rockingham. A man and a woman may naturally create a baby, but it doesn't mean they should. So why prevent a gay couple who have chosen to commit to adopting, fostering or using a form of medical treatment to responsibly enter a new stage of their life and provide for a child?
We don't live in the medieval ages anymore, where sex before marriage was sinful or having children out of wedlock was the worst of social faux pas you could ever do. Many of us have no religious beliefs, including politicians though we have to go along with traditional, Biblical rules lacking conviction, but too locked into routine to rock the political boat.
Our generation is more accepting. There are many homophobes left in the world, but with each new generation born, with each gay person who has the courage, support and bravery to come out, we will all win this one day. As the older generations with their old ideas will leave this world, the newer generations will take the place of world leaders and help shape a free, accepting and proud nation.
I am not gay, but it doesn't mean I have any less interest in creating sexual orientation equality in where we live. This is not just an issue for gay people, but for people who want a world where everybody's opinions and desires are respected. If traditional right wingers can shove their Biblical trite down our throats, then why can't we with our opinions?
How is a couple who share the same body parts but also share an unbreakable love be deemed wrong? How is it even our business to condemn love when sex is a private affair? And why should we deny a ceremony to celebrate a couple finding such beautiful, life changing love and be proud of who they are and what they stand for?
Why are we so fucking ignorant and self righteous to decide who individuals who we don't even know can sleep with and love?
And for the politicians who are gay and too afraid to speak out - you have the power to start change, and you have millions of people there to support you.
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