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08-25-2016, 08:50 AM
A marriage equality vote will hurt young people, says comedian
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"Speech is **t free when it comes at such a cost."
Since it was posted late Wednesday, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby's heartfelt Facebook update about the potentially harmful impact of Australia's marriage equality plebiscite has been liked over 10,000 times.*
SEE ALSO: Australian football makes history with first LGBT Pride Game (http://mashable.com/2016/08/13/afl-pride-game-pictures/)
In only a few powerful paragraphs, she sums up exactly why a public vote to determine whether marriage equality should be legalised in Australia is such a dangerous idea.
Describing her own childhood, when the state of Tasmania debated whether to legalise homo***uality in the 1990s (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/timeline:-australian-states-decriminalise-male-homo***uality/6719702), Gadsby said the voices telling people like her they were subhuman or lesser citizens left deep emotional scars. The Tasmanian law criminalising gay men was only overturned in 1997, following a High Court battle. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/hannah-gadsby-plebiscite-marriage-equality-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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"Speech is **t free when it comes at such a cost."
Since it was posted late Wednesday, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby's heartfelt Facebook update about the potentially harmful impact of Australia's marriage equality plebiscite has been liked over 10,000 times.*
SEE ALSO: Australian football makes history with first LGBT Pride Game (http://mashable.com/2016/08/13/afl-pride-game-pictures/)
In only a few powerful paragraphs, she sums up exactly why a public vote to determine whether marriage equality should be legalised in Australia is such a dangerous idea.
Describing her own childhood, when the state of Tasmania debated whether to legalise homo***uality in the 1990s (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/timeline:-australian-states-decriminalise-male-homo***uality/6719702), Gadsby said the voices telling people like her they were subhuman or lesser citizens left deep emotional scars. The Tasmanian law criminalising gay men was only overturned in 1997, following a High Court battle. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/hannah-gadsby-plebiscite-marriage-equality-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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