Marriage Equality

 

So I’ve finally understood what we were meant to be posting about, and have found a topic that may seem cliché to most people but it speaks a great deal to me. Equality is something that individuals have fought for, for over a millennia; from equality amongst races to gender and now same sex couples.

The ABC network page had several articles that centred on this topic, one article in particular caught my eye. “A Family’s Wish for Marriage Equality” by Louise Saunders & Carol Raabus provided the perspectives of the family members of a same sex couple. Rose Marton the mother of one of the individuals stated:

“I think the frustration for me is that I know it’s going to happen anyway and there’s more important issues in the world today that we need to address rather than something’s that inevitable” (Saunders & Raabus, 2013)

I found I mirrored the same frustration as this mother, there are so many more important issues going on in this world that we could devote our attention to such as the chaos of war that currently occupies Gaza. And if the past is any given, a trivial matter such as this will eventually no longer be such a significant issue. Furthermore, it remains a mystery to me why a situation like this that affects no one but the individuals involved has produced more controversy than poverty rates in third world countries.

Concluding point, although there have been positive movements in certain states in the US and other countries, moving towards establishing laws allowing same sex couples the right to be married in a civil ceremony, I still feel as though this situation in its entirety has received more speculation than necessary and in 50 years from now, future generations will look back and ask; ‘Why were we so against this?’

Bibliography

Saunders, L. & Raabus, C., 2013. A Family's Wish for Marriage Equality. [Online]
Available at: www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/08/16/3827515.htm
[Accessed 31 August 2014].

 

So this would be my very first post, so I best start with a simple introduction: Hello, my name is Melanie Alfred, I was born and raised in Australia. This blog will be where I post my experiences and reflections from the Global Citizen course.

Despite Australia being a very multicultural society, I am very eager to start travelling and fully immerse myself in other cultures in order to truly appreciate the significance of living in a multicultural world.

I named my blog; the Great Big World, because I hope by the end of this course I will have a greater understanding of what is out there, and the URL name I chose was to signify that despite my reluctance to blog, I feel this will be an opportunity for me to grow and develop my views and opinions.