Myths and facts about same-sex marriage
~ Same-sex marriage is a untried social experiment that undermines traditional values and heterosexual marriage.
- Same-sex marriage has been in existence for long enough, and in places sufficiently comparable to Australia, to make it clear that the dire predictions of its opponents are groundless.
- Studies have shown that the legal recognition of same-sex marriage does not affect rates of heterosexual marriage.
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Same-sex marriage: key quotes
The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one's skin or color or race are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the (US) Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to `life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' ... and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.
Hannah Arendt, 1959
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