Reaction to gay marriage defeat in parliament

In polling about 60% of Australians want gay marriage. In parliament this week only 30% of them voted yes to it. I can't think of a greater example of our political leaders being unrepresentative of the general population. It seems that this current parliament won't accept gay marriage. 

I dunno how many would've voted yes if that prick Tony Abbott had allowed his party members to make a conscience vote instead of forcing them to vote as a block. The result would certainly have been much closer.

Today there's a story from one of the people in parliament who put up the private members bill in the first place to try and get it through. I think she speaks for many people in saying:

So when Louise Pratt stood in the Senate on Tuesday to speak to her bill, fighting back tears, it was in part for her and Aram and their own right to marry. 

"We exist. We already exist... all we ask is that you stop pretending that we don't," she told the Senate. 

"That you stop pretending that our relationships are not as real as yours, our love as true, our children as cherished and our families as precious. Because they are," she said. 

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I dunno WTF the problem is with these gutless politicians, other than they're either steeped in the past or homophobic, or both. Unless you're on the receiving end of this unfairness, it's hard to understand the level of disappointment currently being felt around Australia right now. Equality for all in a secular society. Is that too much to ask?

It will happen eventually. We aren't going away.