I've never liked watching soaps, I have tried, but I've found them unrealistic, negatively exaggerated and otherwise quite boring, but it honestly makes no difference to myself whether they allow gay marriage or not and it's only fiction anyway. I've watched bits of Neighbours in the past and I found it especially bad, also why does virtually everyone look like a perfect supermodel without a hair out of place? I'm sure if I walked down an average street in Australia not everyone looks like this?
If they didn't allow it pre-watershed however then they could say the rules are prejudice against gay people since they allow heterosexual weddings to be shown without any question. Even if many people did disapprove they like televising things like this because they're bound to get higher viewing figures. You wouldn't be making a thread about Neighbours if it wasn't for this and similarly it creates publicity where usually no publicity is bad publicity for a show like this.