The Rainbow War!

I can’t believe I have to write this blog post. But I think that the time has come for me to write it. Last weekend, thousands of people across Australia marched for marriage equality. One of those people was me.

The reason this blog post exists is because gay marriage is STILL not nationally legalized. I can’t even begin to try and understand why because it just upsets me.

The reality is that more people in Australia want it to be legalized than people that don’t. That’s A LOT. And the government have acted on statistics far less significant in the past. I point you to the Rudd-stabbing-back-saga.

This shouldn’t be a controversial issue and the only reason I can possibly think to understand why some sectors of society might think that it is, is because it probably was a few a generations ago.

I think what some baby boomers of the Gillard government don’t get is that if there is one topic that’s NOT controversial amongst my generation, it’s gay marriage. We’re mad for it. Climate change might divide us, as might refugee policies – but NOT gay marriage.

And what my generation might not get is that, only a few generations ago young people were protesting against the fact that women didn’t have the right to vote. At the time, that seemed a bit loopy too, but I don’t think any one regrets that.

Embrace it Gen Y! We are bra burners, except this time we’re covering ourselves in rainbow war paint and embracing sexuality.

But if there is one thing I’ve learned its that trying to convert those who aren’t ALREADY converted it will be a bit of a lost cause.

The radical right really seem to love their arrogance and ‘set-in-stone views.’ And when it comes down to it, you just can’t talk sense to someone like that.

It’s a bit like Grandpa and computers. Just does not compute right? That’s not to say that older generations haven’t played their role in embracing gay marriage, they have. But the older generations are more statistically divided on the matter.

The fact is that gay marriage will soon be nationally legalized and recognized and one day in the not-to-distant future, it will be something that our children can look back on and say: ‘Oh my god Mummy/ Daddy, you mean gay people COULDN’T get married before?! That’s weird.’

The only way we will get there though is by consistent, but peaceful acts of force. The mentality amongst my generation of ‘love for all humankind’ will be one that we will pass on to our children and that will be a brighter future indeed.