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Helplessness

Another way to dramatise your plight is to emphasise the helplessness that you feel and how your happiness is dependent on the actions of others when it reality it is up to you.

The same-sex marriage lobby wants the government to change legislation to ‘allow’ them to get married. Of course you cannot marry if your definition of marriage is a relationship that must be approved by the government. Every couple has the right to define their relationship by using any word they like and no one can stop them but if you give up your freedom to do so and let someone else define your own relationship then you have created a problem of your own making.

The reality is that you are not helpless. You can have a marriage ceremony, a reception, a honeymoon and live as a married couple. It is up to you how you define your relationship and there are many couples who do not possess government certificates but define their relationship as a marriage. Are supporters of same-sex marriage trying to say that those relationships are not true marriages simply because there is no certificate? They are guilty of the very same discrimination of which they accuse those who define marriage as between a man and a woman.

Priorities

We must question the values and priorities of the same-sex marriage lobby. Whilst they have been successful in emotionally manipulating politicians and a great majority of the general public why do they persist in their quest when it is of very little import in terms of social issues needing to be dealt with?

How much time and public money has been wasted in trying to placate these people. How many more vital works could have benefitted from those resources? Why would you continue on this path when it has become such a destructive force? Where is your concern for humanity when you are prepared to shift heaven and earth for such little in return?

Politicians

Politicians have shown how susceptible they are when it comes to emotional manipulation. When they make statements such as there is no shame in being homosexual or that all love is equal it shows how out of touch with their own emotional lives they are. They do not even know when they are being abused in this way and this is very worrying for people who are supposed to make judgements for the good of the nation.

Politicians need to be aware when lobbyists try and influence debate by dramatising the pain they are in. When we see a Bill in favour of same-sex marriage being introduced into parliament with tears of great relief as if it meant a whole new era of freedom and justice then we know our politicians are totally out of touch about what it means to be a human being.