The perfect "wellcome back" dinner?

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Originally Posted by GoldDustBoy

We live in Macedonia, which is a small country in Eastern Europe. Most of the people are really cool about the gay community, especially the young generations. There are of course people who oppose it, but it's not a really big deal. Gay marriages, however are still not legal here, but I guess that will change soon too. We are planning to go to Slovenia, and do it there. We've already purchased the rings form my mom in Italy.

Over here in Australia it seems to be the politicians and the churches that are opposed to gay marriage. The general population (except the older generations) are pretty cool with it here too but we keep having the tired old arguments about marriage between a man and a woman. It is only in the past year or so that gay couples have received the same rights as hetrosexual couples (in terms of de-facto relationships, inheritance, etc).

For a forward thinking nation Australia can be a bit backward in some of its views. I've never understood where politicians get the right to tell people what to do with their personal lives...