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Absolutely brilliant as we just found out that Australia has voted YES for marriage equality! It only took us 4 years longer than most of the world, but we did it, finally!

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14-Nov-2017 23:17:01

Dong U Dead

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Absolutely brilliant as we just found out that Australia has voted YES for marriage equality! It only took us 4 years longer than most of the world, but we did it, finally!

That's something to celebrate!

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14-Nov-2017 23:24:02

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Molly Weazly

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Dong U Dead said :
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Absolutely brilliant as we just found out that Australia has voted YES for marriage equality! It only took us 4 years longer than most of the world, but we did it, finally!

That's something to celebrate!

Grats!! But I don't think you are behind the rest of the world. Unfortunately, there are still many states and countries yet to catch up. And even the countries that have progressed so far still have battles to fight.

Someday, long after I'm gone, I hope that this is a battle that no one remembers even having to fight. When we all just love and accept each other.

15-Nov-2017 00:47:49

Dong U Dead

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Molly Weazly said :
Dong U Dead said :
Post said :
Absolutely brilliant as we just found out that Australia has voted YES for marriage equality! It only took us 4 years longer than most of the world, but we did it, finally!

That's something to celebrate!

Grats!! But I don't think you are behind the rest of the world. Unfortunately, there are still many states and countries yet to catch up. And even the countries that have progressed so far still have battles to fight.

Someday, long after I'm gone, I hope that this is a battle that no one remembers even having to fight. When we all just love and accept each other.

Equality <3

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15-Nov-2017 02:30:50

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Team Skull

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Dong U Dead said :
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Absolutely brilliant as we just found out that Australia has voted YES for marriage equality! It only took us 4 years longer than most of the world, but we did it, finally!

That's something to celebrate!

No it's not- it should be normalized like any other union between 2 people.

Celebrating it only keys in on the fact that, for the longest time, it was considered unnaturnal and unfit for proper human to human romance by society, which mitigates what advocacy is all about and just reinforces the notion that, to some degree, it's still considered abnormal by society, for lack of a better term. We are better than that.

Therefore, I do not see why we should create something out of effective nothing. "Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion."- Jeremy Taylor

15-Nov-2017 07:21:17

Dong U Dead

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Team Skull said :
Dong U Dead said :
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Absolutely brilliant as we just found out that Australia has voted YES for marriage equality! It only took us 4 years longer than most of the world, but we did it, finally!

That's something to celebrate!

No it's not- it should be normalized like any other union between 2 people.

Celebrating it only keys in on the fact that, for the longest time, it was considered unnaturnal and unfit for proper human to human romance by society, which mitigates what advocacy is all about and just reinforces the notion that, to some degree, it's still considered abnormal by society, for lack of a better term. We are better than that.

Therefore, I do not see why we should create something out of effective nothing.

I disagree.

- it's a huge step foward and I believe every step foward we take for a better world is a celebration on its own

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15-Nov-2017 07:56:28

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Team Skull

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Dong U Dead said :

I disagree.

- it's a huge step foward and I believe every step foward we take for a better world is a celebration on its own

It was also a huge step forward when autists were no longer being thrown into insane asylums (Check this if you don't believe me- it was once considered a subdiagnosis of schizophrenia).

Was that celebrated? No. Why should this be any different? "Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion."- Jeremy Taylor

15-Nov-2017 09:20:50

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Being gay was once considered not only unnatural, but also a sin. I'm not sure if autism was labelled a sin before, and never heard of any instances of such.

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15-Nov-2017 09:55:00 - Last edited on 15-Nov-2017 10:00:28 by Ancient Drew

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2008

Team Skull

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Ancient Drew said :
Being gay was once considered not only unnatural, but also a sin. I'm not sure if autism was labelled a sin before, and never heard of any instances of such.

It wasn't labelled a sin, but it was once labelled as a psychosis due to it being a subdiagnosis of schizophrenia until the early 1970s, when the DSM slipped it from said subdiagnosis and made it its own entity.

But yea. "Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion."- Jeremy Taylor

15-Nov-2017 10:41:14

Hauk

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Team Skull said :
Dong U Dead said :

That's something to celebrate!

No it's not- it should be normalized like any other union between 2 people.

Celebrating it only keys in on the fact that, for the longest time, it was considered unnaturnal and unfit for proper human to human romance by society, which mitigates what advocacy is all about and just reinforces the notion that, to some degree, it's still considered abnormal by society, for lack of a better term. We are better than that.

Therefore, I do not see why we should create something out of effective nothing.

Progress has to be celebrated in order to be fully recognised. It's only by celebrating change that we have the strength and energy to push for even greater changes.

It will naturally become normalised with time. But failing to properly acknowledge that it was something we had to work for will result in people taking it for granted and also forgetting the mistakes of the past.

Hauk

15-Nov-2017 12:35:19

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