The article is written by Susie O’Brien that was published on The Advertiser on 20 November 2010 arguing the rights for gay marriage, targeting the age group of teens and onwards.
When you ask anyone, they will all tell you they are in favour of equal rights for homosexuals. Then you get to gay marriage, and that is when all the talk about equality stops.
O’Brien started off with a strong point saying she didn’t ever choose to be straight, it was never about choice and that is just who she is. This is a strong point as many people will never even realised this. While growing up, young children will tend to “follow the crowd” as a way of fitting in (Association for Psychological Science, 2009). Thus never really had a point in their lives where …show more content…
At the start of her third paragraph, she said you can’t discriminate against blacks, Asians or the disabled so why is it OK to discriminate homosexuals. I believe they are completely different from each other and hard to compare with each other since blacks and Asians are races and homosexuals are sexuality. But when she said marriage is a human right and it should not be denied to anybody, which is a better point to make rather than comparing to the races. O’Brien expanded, marriage is a sign in the world that the relationship was special so why should gays be denied of this social status because of the way they were born. This argument links to the previous point made earlier about how everyone should be treated …show more content…
I believe that this is a really poor argument from the government side as majority of Australia, more than 60% of Australians are for marriage equality and the percentage continues to rise every year (Australian Marriage Equality, 2012). She was disappointed when Penny Wong, a gay politician, got attacked for not demanding marriage equality when anyone could help, not just her and not just people that are gay. Everyone has to come together and fight for marriage
When you ask anyone, they will all tell you they are in favour of equal rights for homosexuals. Then you get to gay marriage, and that is when all the talk about equality stops.
O’Brien started off with a strong point saying she didn’t ever choose to be straight, it was never about choice and that is just who she is. This is a strong point as many people will never even realised this. While growing up, young children will tend to “follow the crowd” as a way of fitting in (Association for Psychological Science, 2009). Thus never really had a point in their lives where …show more content…
At the start of her third paragraph, she said you can’t discriminate against blacks, Asians or the disabled so why is it OK to discriminate homosexuals. I believe they are completely different from each other and hard to compare with each other since blacks and Asians are races and homosexuals are sexuality. But when she said marriage is a human right and it should not be denied to anybody, which is a better point to make rather than comparing to the races. O’Brien expanded, marriage is a sign in the world that the relationship was special so why should gays be denied of this social status because of the way they were born. This argument links to the previous point made earlier about how everyone should be treated …show more content…
I believe that this is a really poor argument from the government side as majority of Australia, more than 60% of Australians are for marriage equality and the percentage continues to rise every year (Australian Marriage Equality, 2012). She was disappointed when Penny Wong, a gay politician, got attacked for not demanding marriage equality when anyone could help, not just her and not just people that are gay. Everyone has to come together and fight for marriage