Just A Little Green Leaflet

I wrote the below poem in response to Coalition For Marriage's leaflets I kept getting through my door entitled: 10 reasons why the government are wrong to redefine marriage. 
On a positive note you can visit the Coalition For Equal Marriage's website, they are an equal marriage group who want marriage to be legal for same sex couples!

Just A Little Green Leaflet

You think you don’t hurt

That your words don’t break my skin

It’s just our point of view

That you’re living in sin

One man one woman

Traditional ceremony

Because gays can’t find

Happiness you see

Of course they can

Don’t be so ignorant

It’s like you’re living in the 60s

Homophobic and confident

Just a little green leaflet

It won’t hurt a fly

You don’t realise it you see

That you’re the reason why

So many teens

Are taking their lives

Jumping from buildings

Can’t find a way to survive

10 reasons why the government

Are wrong to redefine marriage

It should stay the old way

Bride, groom, horse’s carriage

Well let me tell you

Equal marriage is right

Here you go, let me say

I'm not giving up this fight

There are couples who marry

In Las Vegas at 2am

Barely know each other

You think that’s love to them?

It’s to make children

You homophobes say

What about the infertile

And the elderly?

There are civil partnerships

You've got equality

Well no we haven’t

If it’s named differently

You think that changing the laws

Of marriage equality

Will promote promiscuity

And polygamy

Well that’s so wrong it makes me laugh

I don’t want twenty girlfriends

I just want to marry

The one I’ll love til the end

And gays having kids

That makes your skin crawl

Coz there’s parents who abuse

Kick, hit and name call

They let their children starve

And slouch around smoking weed

So heterosexual parents

Aren't always what kids need

Isn't having two Mums

Better than having none at all?

And having two Dads

You’d be ace at football

We’re human just like you

Got the same DNA

Blood and guts, heart and brains

Just wired to be gay

If you change ‘gay’ to ‘black’

Think how bad it seems

All black people can’t marry

It’s racism of gender themes

You think that marriage

Will change for evermore

It’ll be altered

From it’s traditional core

We’re just like you

The only difference is we’re gay

We’ll argue with our partners

And have barbecues in May

Marriage has changed already

Women are no longer sold by their man

There are inter racial weddings

So why say gay marriage needs a ban?

You bring out the Bible

And quote Leviticus

Don’t bring God into it

It won’t change us

It’s wrong to eat pork

Is it as bad as being gay?

And the bible says

You can’t work on a Sunday

So think about it now

I dare you, go on

Do you still think

Equal marriage is wrong?

By Victoria Munro aged 17