According to a postal plebiscite vote (non-binding), 60 percent of Australian citizens support a change in the law to permit same-sex marriage with all the rights and benefits that heterosexual couples have. Weeks of arguments before the vote didn’t really change anyone from one side to the other. The majority of Australians also believe that business owners should not have conscience rights to refuse service to gays and homosexuals. The “yes” argument was that it promoted same-sex marriage and so-called “equality.” The “no” argument was that it was a threat to religious freedom, for example bakers being forced to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples or schools being required to teach about same-sex relationships.
Including arguments about religious freedom, made no significant difference to the results, the center’s analysis found, indicating that “both arguments carry equal force, cancelling each other out,” and that therefore “these common arguments for and against same-sex marriage appear to have very little impact on respondents’ expressed support for same-sex marriage.” Parliament is the only entity that can change the law. It remains to be seen what parliament will do.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. Romans 1:20-28
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Same-sex marriage arguments may not have swayed postal survey vote, survey finds