Jt three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong support for gay marriage, Parliament voted overwhelmgly to follow the public’s lead.
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- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
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. Advot for gay marriage assailed the Turnbull ernment’s cisn to hold the referendum, llg a layg tactic tend to appease his party’s far-right factn.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
”Many other gay Atralians said they had been hurt and trated by the referendum procs. “The nversatn around marriage equaly was beg domated by those who were agast , ” said Tristan Meecham, the artistic director of the performance pany All the Queens Men and the founr of the Comg Back Out Ball, meant to enurage olr gay Atralians not to return to the out of the discsn, he add, were issu that go beyond marriage, such as the way olr men and women al wh earlier trmas tied to prejudice and gay bashg, or suici among teenagers alg wh issu of genr and sexualy.