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• ATRALIA JT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE AND PEOPLE CAN'T STOP CELEBRATG
• IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ATRALIA
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ATRALIA JT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE AND PEOPLE CAN'T STOP CELEBRATG

” The were the l sung by spectators gathered the Atralian Hoe of Reprentativ moments after gay marriage was officially ma legal. On Thursday, Atralia beme the 25th untry to legalize gay marriage — followg the footsteps of Fland, Malta, and Germany, which have all done the same 2017. ”Take Actn: Fight Misrmatn by Sharg the Facts About HIVA week after the bill passed the senate, and ls than a month after more than 60% of Atralians voted for gay marriage a non-bdg postal vote, jt four members of the Hoe of Reprentativ voted agast the bill and 12 abstaed, cludg former Prime Mister Tony Abbott.

Atralia had prevly attempted 22 tim to legalize gay marriage sce 2004, but last night had a different feel to .

Night Night ? I hope by the time I wake up gay marriage is legalised Atralia..... — Le Shayler (@BoyShayler) December 6, 2017Gay marriage WILL be legal by the end of the day here Atralia! — Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 7, 2017GAY MARRIAGE IS OFFICIALLY LEGAL IN AUSTRALIA IM SO HAPPY MY HEART IS SO FULL I CANT STOP CRYING.

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I've never felt more proud to be gay. On a personal note: I have four sisters, and two are gay, so they will be able to marry their partners now.

Among them was Christe Forster, the gay sister of Tony Abbott, the former Atralian Prime Mister who has long been seen as the face of the “no” mpaign. Opponents of the chang argued they would legalize discrimatn agast the gay muny. The next day, Liberal MP Andrew Wallace, who is a vout Catholic, shared wh his lleagu how his gay dghter helped change his posn on same-sex marriage.

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“She said: Dad, the years to e, my generatn will look back and judge your generatn about how you al wh the issue of homosexualy the same way that your generatn nsired your parents’ generatn the way that they alt wh our digeno people, ” Wallace said. Fightg back tears, Liberal MP Sarah Henrson told the story Wednday night of a close gay iend of hers who died months ago and who, one of their last nversatns, asked her to ntue to ph for same-sex marriage. 7, 2017SYDNEY, Atralia — Atralia’s Parliament voted overwhelmgly to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday, overg years of nservative ristance to enact change that the public had ma clear that fal approval the Hoe of Reprentativ, wh jt four vot agast the bill, me three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong public support for gay marriage.

“It is a huge affirmatn of the digny of gay people yet another untry, and that will reverberate the liv of people across Atralia and the world. Turnbull noted that nothg the legislatn requir misters or other celebrants to oversee weddgs of gay upl or threatens the chary stat of relig groups that oppose same-sex marriage, two ncerns the lawmakers had fal bate the Hoe of Reprentativ, which lasted four days, featured more than 100 the first day, there was a marriage proposal: Tim Wilson, a gay member of Parliament wh the center-right Liberal Party, spoke of the stggl he and his partner, Ryan Bolger, had enuntered as a uple, before chokg up, fdg him the public gallery and askg: “Ryan Patrick Bolger, will you marry me?

”For many lawmakers and gay-rights advot workg behd the scen, the bate took on the feel of a munal reckong wh Atralia’s long history of one pot, Adam Bandt, a Greens Party lawmaker om Melbourne, psed for a moment of silence after referrg to the “nocent blood” of gay Atralians who were hurt durg the long battle for marriage Shorten, lear of the opposn Labor Party, asked for fivens “for the long lay, for the jtic and the digni both great and small. ”He also paid tribute to a Labor Party lleague, Senator Penny Wong, a gay polician who he said had walked “a lonely road and a hard road” to help change Atralia.