Atralia’s hight urt cleared the way for the ernment to nduct a public survey on whether gay marriage should be legalized.
Contents:
- ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN
- ATRALIA'S GAY MARRIAGE SURVEY CAN BE A CALL TO ARMS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
- ATRALIAN URT DISMISS CHALLENGE TO GAY MARRIAGE SURVEY
- ATRALIAN COURT DISMISS CHALLENGE TO GAY MARRIAGE POSTAL SURVEY
ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN
In this week's Thigh-High Polics, lumnist Lren Du travels to Atralia to report on that natn's upg survey on gay marriage. * gay marriage survey australia *
Michael Kirby, a former judge of the High Court, who is gay and a same-sex marriage supporter, scribed the postal survey as "unacceptable" and "irregular". Dpe assertns om Turnbull that the survey would be overwhelmgly rpectful, the mpaign has been marred by homophobic cints and mpaign material which ntued largely unabated spe a special law passed to apply electoral law safeguards to the survey, such as thorisatn requirements for mpaign mpaign also featured two unsuccsful high urt challeng agast the expendure of $122m for the survey, as marriage equaly advot fought to prevent the poll seen as an afont bee termed LGBTI people’s equaly before the law by a majorarian pollg throughout the mpaign showed nsistent support for marriage equaly and weekly timat showed the survey was on-track for a rerd no mpaign took creasgly bizarre turns, wh Abbott g an asslt that even his attacker said had nothg to do wh marriage to rally Atralians to his e, and nservativ attemptg to e US rapper Macklemore’s performance of his h Same Love at the gby league grand fal to claim the natnal mpaign they lled for had appropriately policised Atralian cross-party bill will be bated the Senate on Thursday and the parliamentary stg week begng 27 November, wh supporters of marriage equaly aimg to pass a bill through both ho of parliament before they rise on 7 December. 14, 2017MELBOURNE, Atralia — A solid majory of Atralians voted favor of same-sex marriage a historic survey that, while not bdg, pav the way for Parliament to legally regnize the unns of gay and lbian 12.
Proponents of gay rights spent the day celebratg. “This is our proust moment as gay and lbian Atralians, ” said Chris Lewis, 60, an artist om Sydney, who waved a large rabow flag he bought San Francis about 30 years ago. ”Alex Greenwich, a state lawmaker om New South Wal and the -chairman of Atralian Marriage Equaly, an advocy group, said the vote “shows that Atralians have tly e together support of their gay and lbian mat and have said that everybody should be able to have the eedom to marry.
ATRALIA'S GAY MARRIAGE SURVEY CAN BE A CALL TO ARMS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
CANBERRA, Atralia (AP) — Atralia's hight urt cleared the way Thursday for the ernment to nduct a public survey on whether gay marriage should be legalized. * gay marriage survey australia *
”Dean Smh, a feral senator om the Liberal Party, who is gay, said that he would immediately troduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. His bill would provi addnal anti-discrimatn protectns for relig people and bs opposed to gay marriage.
Thigh-High Polics is an op-ed lumn by Teen Vogue wrer Lren Du that breaks down the news, provis rourc for the ristance, and jt generally ref to accept toxic right to marry shouldn’t be a qutn 2017, but is for gay upl Atralia.
ATRALIAN URT DISMISS CHALLENGE TO GAY MARRIAGE SURVEY
We have several dumpster fir ragg at home the Uned Stat, but I’ve chosen to wre about the Atralian survey this week bee this is a historic moment the global ph for gay rights, and bee I thk there is somethg Amerins n learn om this, pecially wh regard to the Tmp admistratn’s posns on civil rights Atralia is typilly pulsory and bdg, so a voluntary survey is seen by many as a els exercise (though one that is wildly expensive and a potentially accurate attack on mocratic valu, but that’s another say. But raisg the qutn has empowered a small but vol factn to feel empowered their homophobia, reamg LGBTQ people’s right to marry as a wholale attack on nservatism. Back September, there was a skywrer hired by anti–gay marriage mpaigners to spell out “Vote No” among the clouds the flip si, many have been woken om placency, pelled to voice their support for gay rights beyond simply checkg “y” on the survey.
ATRALIAN COURT DISMISS CHALLENGE TO GAY MARRIAGE POSTAL SURVEY
Thoands of away, a untry where gay marriage has been legal sce 2015, Atralia’s gay marriage survey may seem backward.
In the Stat, the Pew Rearch Center found that 62% of Amerins support gay marriage while 32% oppose . And acrdg to The Guardian, Atralians are jt below that, at 57% of those polled approval, wh 34% siary of overarchg popular support reveals the way which policians Atralia have been able to turn gay marriage to a wedge issue. ”The ia that the Atralian ernment n pose gay marriage as a qutn 2017 prov that popular opn is only as strong as s volizatn.