So the drama continues, where reasonable responses to Miranda Devine’s original opinion piece have been ignored so that the whole thing can be blown out of proportion. Again.
Click here to see Tom Ballard's take on all the drama
I agree that Ms Devine shouldn’t have to deal with personal harassment, but she also needs to understand that she’s reacting the exact same way she is accusing the gay community of reacting to her article - that everything needs to be censored, that only one side is entitled to have their say. The gay and lesbian population of Australia are not trying to bully anyone, nor are they threatening to unhinge society just so they can have the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts, yet supporters of Ms Devine would have us believe that is exactly what is happening.
I am really pissed off with the whole situation: I’m irked that the article was afforded such a dramatic response in the first place, I’m ticked that majority of the Australian population support gay marriage yet the politicians, commentators and columnists seem to be the only ones allowed to have a say in the matter, and I’m incredibly angry that I am living in what appears to be a very backwards country. Australia is supposed to be a modern(-ish), democratic and free society, how can we be so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to this?
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