I am still trying to comprehend the incredible vote that occurred 2 days ago in the Queensland Parliament. I was there..in the gallery above our 88 elected officials (Independent MP Rob Messenger was suspended for 5 days so was excluded from the house) witnessing history taking place...I smelt like sheep shit and grease after an all nighter on the tractor cultivating and trucking a load of sheep to market, then hiring a car to race to the capital without a break to even wash my hands or face, or eat, but I didn't care and neither did the hundreds there in attendance also to be part of the changing world.

After 4 hours of debate Deputy Premier Andrew Frazer's Private Members Bill on Civil Unions passed the house 47-40 which essentially almost gives me the same rights as my 10 brothers and sisters.

It almost gives me the same rights as my 2 divorced brothers, my separated sister, my twice divorced and currently engaged again sister, my de-facto sister with 2 children, my sister separated with 2 children, my married sister, my 2 married brothers and my separated brother...and for this I am ecstatic.

Though I have waited a few days to see if allowing same-sex couples to marry in Civil Unions will actually destroy the sanctity of marriage... though I'm thinking that bad marriages already did that...long before Andrew Frazer decided it was time to do all he can as a State Parliamentarian to bring about Equality.

In my opinion Marriage is a human construct... like any form of property ownership it states that something you can not see exists. For example when Joe Bloggs leaves his house to go to work... he still owns it and no one can just move on in. Just like marriage , when Joe's wife is home alone, another bloke just can't come and be with her, because like the house ownership we have constructed rules so that we know how to act around other peoples claims.

So just like Joe legally owns his house and is legally bonded to his wife... there is no reason not to extend this 'human construct which sends a message of claim to others' to same-sex couples who live in just the same arrangement.

Marriage says 'these two people are bonded together to the exclusion of all others, that is what Michael and I have...so let the law reflect it... stop the rot about our relationship having anything to do with yours. 

After all if yours is failing, it is not because Michael and Mine is Not.