Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?
NO, Davinder Singh Mamik
70-Years-old engineer from Melbourne, Mr. Devender Mamik has worked in Europe and Africa before settling down in Australia. He is against legalising same-sex marriages. He says, “I am not against equality. Equality is very important. But this is not a way of going for equality. God created male and female and therefore females have certain advantages over males that she bears child. Male is there to protect the family and female is there to protect the children because they have motherly-love which is extremely important for the growing family. If we grow on this particular path where two males or two females live together as husband and wife and they do have adopted child, I think we are destroying the psychology of the child. As soon as he starts understanding, he gets his own personal psychology towards this topic. We must not anything which harms the future generation. Equality is one thing. We should give everyone the right to live according to their will. I do understand that some people may not have attraction towards the opposite sex. That is fine. They can live their lives. But please do not destroy the environment and the family.”
Mr. Mamik says that no religion accepts same-sex relations for a reason. He says, “Why God created us like that? I do not think government should legalise something like this because then where are we going to stop? Tomorrow other complications might appear.”
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Mamik opines that nature has created us like this and we should follow.
YES, Molina Asthana
A lawyer from Melbourne, Molina Asthana supports legalising same-sex marriages. She says that all should vote yes because there is a minority community which is affected. Asthana says, “These people are affected. They live under mental and emotional pressure. There mental health is affected.”
Asthana is a convener of Asian-Australian Alliance which has a Rainbow alliance as well. She claims that LGBT people of Asian origin are highly affected. Asthana says, “These people cannot share their feelings with their families. They leave their countries and come here to feel safe and accepted. It is wrong on our part if we do not give equal rights to them.”
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Asthana concedes that she is not authority on Hindu religion but as a practitioner Hindu she believes that Hindu culture has references of a third gender in its mythological history as well. She says, “Third gender was all ways accepted and welcomed in society. They had their place all walks of life. They were invited in religious ceremonies and they had special places in kings’ courts too. We should understand that our society had accepted them long back.”
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