Please join me
Those of us who thought, like the old song, that “love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage” have had a lot of confusing information thrown at us recently about same-sex couples and the way their non-marriages give them all the same rights as married people.
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My wife and I were surprised, therefore, to attend the Roads and Maritime Service Centre last week to change our car registration, where we were asked to produce our marriage certificate.
This led me to wonder what other equal rights might not be there, particularly when my daughter, currently unable to marry her long-time partner, gets to our age.
Will she be asked for a marriage certificate if her not legally recognised wife is in hospital, or worse?
Australia Post apparently charges hundreds of dollars for a name change, but not if you can provide a – you guessed it – marriage certificate.
Those who oppose same sex marriage are resting their hopes on the oldies like me.
But if you think we are going to support discrimination against our own kids and grand-kids, you are about to be very disappointed.
My daughter doesn’t need my permission to get married.
But she needs yours.
Please join me in voting YES.
Desmond Bellamy
Byron Bay
Escaping unscathed
Wheeler’s Wisdom (Advertiser, September 18) mentions the Brits are signposting public toilets as “All Gender Restrooms” and somehow attributes that to the same sex marriage debate.
The accommodation blocks at Canberra’s ANU have had “Uni sex” toilets and bathrooms for at least 25 years, which pre-dates any talk of same-sex marriage and the sky has not yet fallen in.
Students don’t appear to have been badly affected and when I stayed there during Jazz Festivals in the 1990s, I manage to come away without any gender alteration, or even thoughts of such a proposal.
Not sure where Keith gets his information from but a little research could save face for him.
Graeme Callander, Wagga
Will it make a difference?
All this talk about closing coal fired plants and global warming is in ignorance of one very important and relatively unknown fact that the world seems to be overlooking.
The Chinese Hills are made of limestone and as the rivers flow through the Chinese hills.
Limestone is made up of CO2, and the rivers passing under them and through them are releasing millions of tonnes of CO2 into the air every minute.
When the rivers exit the Chinese hills, they contain the highest level of CO2 in the world.
So, what difference are we going make by reducing our very minute amount of CO2 into the air, compared to the Chinese hills?
About time we put it all in perspective, isn't it?
Nature is the biggest contributor to the gases being released into the atmosphere and we can't change nature.
Steven Taylor, North Albury
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