Letters to the editor

September 15 2017 - 4:00pm
Letters to the Editor – September 15
Letters to the Editor – September 15

Happy to vote for marriage equality

This week we all begin to receive our marriage equality postal survey ‘ballot papers’ and I suppose most people have a good idea how they intend to ‘vote’. For me, with no religious affiliation, it is a straight forward question; I intend to indicate a yes for marriage equality.  For those with sincerely held reservations, I can respect that you may have other views, but I would ask you to consider whether you should be imposing those views on others particularly if those others have no or different religious views. The basis for my decision to support marriage equality is simple. It has nothing to do with approving or not approving of homosexuality or marriage equality. Quite the contrary, my approval or otherwise is quite irrelevant. The basis for my support for marriage equality is that I have no good reason to do otherwise. I believe that I have no right to tell someone else how they should live their lives unless some action by that person unreasonably imposes on my life. We have laws against driving motor vehicles when we have had too much to drink.  Why? Not because it is inherently evil. We oppose it and outlaw it because it is likely to unreasonably impact on other people’s lives. I cannot imagine how a couple falling in love and choosing to marry could possibly impose unreasonably on my life. Frankly, gay or straight I would be happy for them. We all should be.

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