Most of the electorate undecided about how to vote in referendum

The purpose of the Marriage Equality Referendum is to address serious flaws in attitudes adversely affecting countless numbers of people because of their sexual orientation.

Most of the electorate undecided about how to vote in referendum

A ‘Yes’ vote would serve to remedy that problem and it would be entirely in keeping with the basic Christian ethic of love. Reality is that we are not at liberty to pick and choose who we love and who we can discard nor do we have the right to decide for anybody who they must love or to indicate what their partner’s gender must be before we can love them.

In my view the ballot box is no place to set limits to this basic principle of our existence upon which marriage and civilised conduct generally has been founded for centuries.

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