Facebook goes gay
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| Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
From Tuesday, Facebook will give its 14 million Australian users the option of adding an Australian Marriage Equality banner to their profile pictures, in what AME hopes will demonstrate "the mainstream support" for the reform.
The move comes amid an increasingly public discussion about same-sex marriage and LGBTI issues. On Monday, Fairfax Media reported leaked pamphlets - due to feature in an upcoming campaign against same-sex marriage -suggesting children of gay parents are more prone to "abuse and neglect". The studies confirm this data that same sex marriage damages children, but of course all studies are screamed down not argued or examined but labelled. Homosexual marriage is has a moral crusade to it.
This is the first time Facebook has used the "frame feature" (which puts a prominent banner at the bottom of a profile picture) for a political or social cause in Australia. However, the new feature follows a rainbow "filter" social media users put over their profile pictures last year in the wake of the US Supreme Court decision backing same-sex marriage where 9 judges who were not elected pulled out of thin air the right for sodomy to become marriage.
Facebook director of policy for Australia, Mia Garlick, said marriage equality was "one of the most talked-about topics on Facebook".
Ms Garlick said the frame feature was "a way of us amplifying the conversations that we already see happening on the platform".
An example of the Australian Marriage Equality banner Australian Facebook users will have access to. Facebook is also a partner of the upcoming Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. This is abuse to a free platform and mind manipulation. WE a balanced view be present - NO.
AME campaign director Erin McCallum said the new feature was a "simple, yet powerful way for individuals and businesses to show what we already know".
She added that the accessible and visual nature of Facebook made it an "extremely powerful way of furthering this issue and making the gay community feel included".
"We hope that as many of those 14 million people [on Facebook] will show their support."
Facebook was not able to say how many of its 14 million Australian users are of voting age. The Facebook-AME partnership comes as the Turnbull government works on its plans for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage, which would be held after the federal election, if the Coalition wins.
Labor - as well as AME - is vehemently opposed to a plebiscite, arguing Parliament should deal with the issue instead.
Opposition frontbencher Terri Butler plans to try and bring on a vote on the cross-party bill on same-sex marriage this week, although there is little chance government MPs will agree to the plan.
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