HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE IN AUSTRALIA
Julia Gillard has stood her ground on “Gay Marriage Rights”, leaving thousands of gays and lesbians feeling their relationships and lives are insignificant. As a leader of Parliment and Priminister of Australia, Julia Gillard your stance is weak. Standing behind your conservative upbringing and the Bible, to justify your thoughts and publically advertise your decisions displays a leader who does not take ownership for her decisions. You do not represent yourself, you represent the population of Australia.
By turning your back on the Gay and Lesbian society you turn your back on your people. Gays and Lesbians are no different to you and I, with feelings, like you and I. Imagine living in a country where your life was regarded insignificant and inferior.
Why is it acceptable to value the rights of heterosexual society significant to the “Gays and Lesbians?”
Live and Let Live Julia Gillard. Accepting Gay Marriage does not interfere with the laws we live by. By accepting Gay Marriage Rights in Australia allows all Australian’s to be defined as individuals and gives them the freedom of equal rights.
SURVEY: PERCENTAGE OF GAYS AND LESBIANS IN AUSTRALIA
2003: The largest and most thorough survey in Australia to date was conducted by telephone interview with 19,307 respondents between the ages of 16 and 59 in 2001/2002. The study found that 97.4% of men identified as heterosexual, 1.6% as gay and 0.9% as bisexual. For women 97.7% identified as heterosexual, 0.8% as lesbian and 1.4% as bisexual. Nevertheless, 8.6% of men and 15.1% of women reported either feelings of attraction to the same gender or some sexual experience with the same gender. Half the men and two thirds of the women who had same-sex sexual experience regarded themselves as heterosexual rather than homosexual.[5]
2006: A study found 2–3% Australians identified as homosexual while 20% of Australians reported having same-sex attractions
Reference to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation
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