Having a brisk peruse (yes, yes, an oxymoron) of your back catalogue and saw this – completely agree. Interesting to reflect on how hot topics have changed over time. Anyway when reading this I was reminded of a podcast on Australian politics I just heard (doing my research on this new home of mine) in which an ex-politician was arguing that the only/main reason gay marriage is not legal in Australia is precisely because politicians have interfered and made it a political issue. I don’t buy that, but it was an interesting discussion. (There was a big political incident here last week where a moderate Liberal Party member said gay marriage was about to happen, leading to immediate denials from the PM to appease his conservative party members, effectively killing chances of it happening any time soon.)
As an aside, in the same podcast they mentioned that in most of Australia (SA and ACT aside), a transgender person already in a marriage (i.e. they changed gender after getting married) cannot legally change their birth certificate without getting divorced. The UN has ruled this breaches human rights; Australia’s counter argument to the UN was that permitting change of birth certificate without divorce would provide a means for same sex couples to find themselves legally married…