Coinciding with today’s celebratory day of historic same sex weddings kicking off in the ACT- despite the potential for the High Court to repeal the marriage equality act – talented Sydney singer and one third of Seeker Lover Keeper Holly Throsby has come out and spoken out strongly in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, advocating for marriage equality, encouraging LGBTQI rights and lamenting the homophobia that still presents itself as an unfortunate character in Australian society.
Holly Throsby begins her piece by mentioning how her stunning song Now I Love Someone has been a popular wedding track, but notes the inherent paradox: “I’m not sure if any of them knew I’d written it about a woman. Hopefully that wouldn’t change anything. It’s irrelevant. Being in love is being in love. Except, of course, when it comes to marriage.”
Throsby touches on the anti-gay arguments that float around the marriage equality debate, denouncing the relevancy of the religious defintion of “marriage” by saying, “I also know the Bible says that anyone who works on the Sabbath should be put to death, and I often do gigs on Sundays.”
Citing the homophobic sentiments that often permeate society and damage the LGBTQI community, Throsby admits, “I’ve been lucky that those sentiments are not common in my life. The problem is, no matter how accepting the people close to you are, it’s society that can instill the most anguish.”
Putting her argument for marriage equality simply, Holly Throsby calls on plain logic to justify support for marriage equality. Preach: “As far as choice goes, gay people don’t choose to be gay. Straight people don’t choose to be straight. But straight people can choose to get married.”
Read Holly Throsby’s SMH op ed in full here.
Title image by Paul McConnell via Getty.
