Dear reader, we’re in for a tsunami of cataclysmic change. Like it or not, we’re going to see profound change to marriage in this country. And to many the question remains unanswered. Can we afford to take this convulsive step?
The momentum of the private member’s bill subsided last year, ultimately quashed by the more conservative elements due to the the requirement by those very sensible and grounded members for a reasoned and thorough public debate. It has been determined by that same inner core of christian, god fearing men, that the matter was of such conscience and importance, and ‘in light of the appalling result in Ireland’, that only the most thorough and rigorous examination of all the issues would equip the public to make a well and truly informed decision.
Then it was rumoured the issue could wait till after the next election, and then again the issue was postponed by the same core who suggested more time was required for a more thorough and more detailed, reasoned debate. This pushed the timeline for a referendum out the window, (so to speak). Some went further still, and allowed within the space provided by the additional delay to talk sensibly of the evils of same sex marriage and the pernicious influence of the LGBTI addicted, in a reasonable and dispassionate manner.
And now, though the issue may be considered by Mr Brandis at the end of the year. We have it on good authority that it may be ‘put off’ till 2025’. That same source close to Mr Brandis has further illuminated the general discussion with the likelihood that ‘2050 could be good as it’s a nice round figure, and there’s still a lot of reasoned, rational and dispassionate discussion around the terribly important issue of same sex marriage and the likelihood that people thus encouraged may marry their dog, cat, or even goldfish. There has been an alleged surge in (IMP’s) ‘Inappropriate Marriage Proposals’ as a consequence of the public debate, and it is felt that more time is required, (perhaps a decade or two) to allow the heat to subside from this very important and vexed issue’.
We at PCbyCP are truly glad that we have Mr David Flint, head of the Australian monarchists movement to demonstrate that if we adopt the “correct” referenda strategy, we could provide certainty and understanding by putting it off till 2075 or perhaps with a little luck 2115. Another nice round figure.
Still though, there is progress moving forward. Chuffed by the courageous decision by the Victorian government to open up a sensible timeline for recognition of the first australians with a treaty that restores dignity, respect and recognition in the constitution, a spokesman from the Brandis office enthused, ‘indeed we heartily agree, and with the full measure of reasoned and informed debate as demonstrates in the same sex marriage debate we signify that the promulgation of a treaty with true recognition is on the cards for 2088, or theres an outside chance of 2125’.
The editor of PCbyCP, aggrieved by the egregious and unnecessary delay was told, ‘come on this is real progress, another two hundred years and they’ll, (both LGBTI and First Australians) have the same rights as the rest of the population in being peripheral to the political process entirely. That’s recognition enough of true and substantial progress. Demonstration enough that this government is forward thinking and truly innovative’.
The Minister for Innovation was unavailable for comment.