Today Mardi Gras festival 2016 opens and amongst the air of celebration, I feel gobsmacked as to why some of our leaders are still openly promoting traditional heterosexual families as the preferable option for kids.
Only two weeks ago, Tony Abbott took his brand of politics into the heartland of conservative America, addressing the ultra-right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom group in New York. True to form, he delivered an election spruiking speech on “The Importance of Family” despite the possible negative impact it might have on families like my own – with two mums – or for that matter on LGBT-parented families throughout Australia.
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Since when are they called "Gaybies". For goodness sake, you want people to be treated equally, then add all these ridiculous tag lines to different people. How about we just label them children. After all, your whole article goes on about them being the same as every child so drop the silly name for them - it's these silly names that divide and label people.