A wonderful speech from New Zealand MP Maurice Williamson on the marriage equality bill. I am very much for this and am so happy to see yet another country taking this decision…

“All we are doing with this bill is allowing two people who love each other to have that love recognized by way of marriage.

That is all we are doing. We are not declaring nuclear war on a foreign state. We are not bringing a virus in that could wipe out our agricultural sector forever. We are allowing two people who love each other to have that recognized, and I can’t see what’s wrong with that for love nor money.

I give a promise to those people who are opposed to this bill right now. I give you a watertight guaranteed promise; the sun will still rise tomorrow, your teenage daughter will still argue back with you as if she knows everything, your mortgage will not grow, you will not have skin diseases or rashes or toads in your bed. The world will just carry on.”

UPDATE: And when they break out in a Maori love song…then I couldn’t hold back a tear.

Well done New Zealand!!