Same sex marriage for Australia? Yeah right!

Or could I be wrong?

Found this article in The Age this morning, and thought I would post and talk about it.

A brief snip from the article:

Sex-change woman in ID crisis

SAME-SEX marriage for Australians might become possible if a legal challenge succeeds.

The challenge could also have implications for the Howard Government's "man and woman" marriage laws. The appeal involves a trans-gender woman who was born male, later married a woman and had a sex change but has been denied a passport.

Grace Abrams' trouble began when she tried to change her sex on her birth certificate. The move was disallowed under laws governing the NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, similar to laws in Victoria, which disallow a gender change on a birth certificate when a person is married.

Link: The Age: Sex-change woman in ID crisis

I knew when these laws passed a few years back that they would be met with challenge in the coming years, but I really thought I wouldn't be young enough where I could still take advantage of such laws if I chose to marry someone.

It doesn't matter if you are the biggest homophobe in the world, you should still be willing to support laws which make it equal across the board for everyone. Why? The answer to that is simple... no one should ever tell another person who they can or cannot marry. It isn't government or church who tells us what love is, it is our hearts.

I never really knew what love was all about until I got with my now ex female partner back in 2000. What a wonderful feeling it is to have someone in this world who really makes your heart skip a beat or two when they walk in the room. That is exactly what it was like for me. I reckon if she walked into a room where I was today, my heart would still do the same. So is it right to deny other people that, when you have it yourself?

Right now, I am hoping and praying that Grace Abrams wins her case and this does strike down the rather discriminating marriage laws we see presently in Australia, and ya know why? Because regardless of whether I will ever marry another person or not, it is the right thing to do for all Australians. It moves our country into the 21st centry, and brings us in line with other countries around the world who now enjoy same sex marriages as well as traditional marriages.