Limelight Magazine is adding its voice to the other artists and arts organisations voting yes.

Limelight Magazine is adding its voice to the other artists and arts organisations voting yes.

The arts community is a very diverse one. People in same-sex relationships provide Australia with expression through all artforms. We also have many journalists working for Limelight who are in same-sex relationships. Parents in our Limelight community have gender and sexuality diverse kids, and others in our community have same-sex attracted parents or have grown up with same-sex parents.

Our stages are graced by great artists in couples who are unable to marry because of the legal status quo.

We support them.

Historically, same-sex attracted artists are found throughout the arts, and contemporary Australia is no exception.

The arts community also includes people who hold dear the teachings of religious texts, whether they be the Bible (old and new), the Qur’an, the Tripitaka, the Torah or the Book of Mormon. Indeed, western classical music as we know it stemmed from the generosity and encouragement of the church. We have the understanding that secular law and religious belief are separate. The survey on marriage law is a secular question.

There are also those of the arts community...