Koda, 4, was promised an ice cream if he was good at Saturday’s marriage equality rally – and the promise was kept. Now his mother just wants to be able to keep the promise she has made to her girlfriend, to marry one day.
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“My [heterosexual] friends can throw a party and marry, but the difference is they sign a legally recognised certificate that’s taken seriously,” Shelby Marks said.
In dealing with any official agency, “if I can say she is my wife, we will be taken more seriously.
“I’m just thankful [Koda] is growing up in this generation and not in mine. I remember a school friend who copped a lot of bullying for her same-sex parents. But all of his friends say, ‘Koda has two mums! How lucky!’
“I see that as a good thing, but again … the ability to get married will take that relationship seriously.”
