So the High Court doesn't agree...

This is a follow up post to my blog from earlier on in the week entitled 'Everyone Deserves the Right to Marry'.

Apparently the High Court doesn't agree. 

Even though it doesn't affect me, today Australia took a step backwards when the High Court repealed the Marriage Equality Law in the ACT was repealed. Unfortunately, as much as we hoped this wouldn't happen, it did.

In my opinion, everyone deserves the right to marry, and the definition of marriage has changed dramatically from when it first came to light. No longer should marriage be defined in the biblical sense as solely between a man and a woman. No, we are smarter and more advanced than that. 

The world has changed and we need to change and adapt with it. 

In an article by The Australian, they say that the High Court wanted to ensure that the laws were concurrent with Federal legislation and that states and territories did not operate as separate countries when it came to marriage legislation. 

Fair enough. But going so far as to repeal the law altogether? Why not just fix the Federal laws so that everything is concurrent and that everyone in Australia is entitled to the right to marry. Sure, it might be difficult, but as the saying goes: 'I'm not saying it's going to be easy...I'm saying it's going to be worth it.' Australians need to work together to encourage the government to develop laws which aren't seen as unconstitutional and that can be recognised as concurrent with legislation.

In the end though, the spark left behind by the Marriage Equality Law has lit a fire. Though the  law has since been repealed and the marriages that have occurred in the past week aren't legally recognised, I highly doubt that it will stay this way forever. Times are changing and we need to keep up. 

I think this picture says it all. Underneath everything, we are all human.

For the link to the article in The Australian that I mentioned, click HERE