Magda Szubanski's powerful marriage equality message

Magda Szubanski has seemingly summed up the argument for marriage equality during a heated discussion on Q&A.

When No campaign spokesperson Karina Okotel suggested civil ceremonies should be for gay couples while marriage stays between a man and a woman, the 56-year-old refuted the idea saying it sends a "clear message of equal but different".

"You’re sending a very clear message of equal but different," the Kath and Kim star told the panel before comparing it to an AFL player winning an award for "the civil acknowledgment of your very excellent effort" instead of the the Brownlow Medal.

Magda also slammed the claims that having same-sex marriage in Australia would "alter" society and how they see traditional marriage adding that there is a "really small percentage of the population" who are gay.

"You can’t breed us out of existence because we do originate mostly from straight people. But there does seem to be a constant number of roughly 10% of same-sex attracted people," she added.

"It’s not like there’s an army of us who are going to take over. We just want to have the same rights and protections."

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"Believe me, this is coming on the tail end of the oppressions that we’ve been through and I don’t want to come across as a whinger but we have to acknowledge the history of this. What it would mean to us to be fully acknowledged, I don’t know if you can really understand after the bashings, the discriminations, the murders. This isn’t just out of the blue. It comes within an historical context."

Magda's argument comes as the Australian marriage quality postal survey deadline comes up in two weeks.

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