Gay marriage, marriage equaly ... what's the difference?

Contents:

• IS ATRALIA'S GAY MARRIAGE BATE BEG 'STIFLED'?
• HOPE AND FSTRATN ATRALIA AS GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE NEARS
• ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN
• GAY PARENTS BEE ACTIVISTS ATRALIAN MARRIAGE DEBATE
• GAY MARRIAGE: ATRALIAN SENATE RUM BATE TO PASS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL THIS WEEK
• ATRALIA SENATOR LIVERS EMOTNAL SPEECH FOLLOWG UNTRY'S GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• GAY MARRIAGE BATE: TONY ABBOTT URG ATRALIA TO VOTE ‘NO’

IS ATRALIA'S GAY MARRIAGE BATE BEG 'STIFLED'?

Advertisements will also need to be vetted and broadsters mt ensure opposg views are shown or heard on May, Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas, Atralia's natnal airle, who is gay, was ambhed durg a speech at a bs breakfast Perth by a man who threw a lemon mergue pie his face. In other untri the policians had the urage to make the cisn as elected members on behalf of the people, " explaed Vce Mchell, a profsor at the Universy of Sydney Bs ptn, Prof Vce Mchell believ the postal ballot will have a cleansg effect on AtraliaAtralia hered anti-gay laws om Brish lonisers, who arrived towards the end of the 18th Century.

Until 1949, the ath penalty remaed on the statute books for sodomy the southern state of Victoria, but bold legislative change did eventually e September 1975, when South Atralia clared that male homosexualy would no longer be a crime. In between, police arrted more than 50 people at the first Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para Sydney Mchell believ that, although ntroversial, the postal ballot uld have a cleansg effect on a untry that ntu to harbour unease and mistst about same-sex relatnships.

HOPE AND FSTRATN ATRALIA AS GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE NEARS

The anti-reform Coaln for Marriage hop to nvce the uncid that should same-sex upl be allowed to marry there would be ser nsequenc for children, who would be exposed to "radil" views on homosexualy schools.

While there are fewer and fewer rights and obligatns attached to married upl which do not attach to facto upl—a stat currently enpassg same-sex upl most legal ntexts—supporters of gay rights argue this is not enough, and that the remag differenc are unacceptable.

ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN

Atralia’s vote on same-sex marriage has triggered a surprisgly toxic bate for a untry known for s laid back attu and vibrant gay and lbian non-bdg natnwi postal ballot was lnched September and rults are due on Nov 15.

Homophobic attacks and hate speech have spiked while anti-gay marriage activists pla of harassment and abe, promptg parliament to pass emergency anti-hate marriage has long been a hot button issue Atralia, which only crimalized homosexualy natnwi 1997, but the current vote has turbocharged the bate.

GAY PARENTS BEE ACTIVISTS ATRALIAN MARRIAGE DEBATE

Thoands of gay rights mpaigners have taken part ralli they hope will help end Atralia’s stat as one the few veloped liberal mocraci where gay upl nnot agast the move have held smaller protts, but have marshaled an imprsive — if ntroversial — TV and digal mpaign urgg Atralians to vote “No.

GAY MARRIAGE: ATRALIAN SENATE RUM BATE TO PASS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL THIS WEEK

However, Prime Mister Mallm Turnbull’s center-right Liberal Party has a vol right wg and is aln wh the Natnal Party, which primarily reprents nservative ral though Turnbull said he personally supports gay marriage, his parliamentary majory of jt one seat meant he was unr prsure to honor an earlier promise of a plebisce ma by his precsor Tony the postal survey rult is “Y, ” Turnbull and his nservative lleagu have pledged a ee parliamentary vote on equal Atralia vot “No” the issue is highly unlikely to be revised durg the current Turnbull ernment, and possibly the next ernment should he rema power after 2019 SO BITTER?

Protters hold up banners at an anti-same-sex marriage rally Sydney on September 23, Parks / AFP/Getty ImagThose agast the vote say a human right should not be put to a public ballot, and that has given a vol mory a platform to air homophobic views unr the guise of mocratic bate. ’ This has opened the door for broadly anti-LGBTQ rhetoric to be legimized as simply one si of a bate to be ‘rpected, ’” Hannah McCann, genr studi lecturer at Melbourne Universy, told NBC discsn has some rpects morphed to a wir culture war, polarizg Atralia siar ways to the Brex vote Bra and the electn of Donald Tmp the Uned is partly due to the “No” mpaign lkg gay marriage to other issu ar to nservativ an attempt to rally support.

Earlier this year an ex-farmer shoved a pie to the face of Qantas airl boss and gay marriage advote Alan Joyce as he spoke to 500 people at a bs September, Abbott claimed an equal marriage activist had head-butted him, although his assailant later said the attack had nothg to do wh the outlets have reported a spate of homophobic graffi public spac, homophobic hate speech and attacks on gay rights advot and their far fewer, other reports reunt the vandalism of church by gay rights activists and harassment of “No” voters, cludg a woman who was fired for airg her NEXT? Opn polls dite the “Y” mpaign is still the lead on a high turnout, although gay rights advot are still pot to surprise nservative ws last year’s Brex vote and Tmp’s electn, and worry that placency uld prs the “Y” “Y” do w, exactly how the right for gay upl to wed will be enshred law is as yet unclear, which uld lead to further polil wranglg. Legislatn about everythg om taxatn and employment to health-re benefs and pensn payments was changed to allow gay upl the same rights as heterosexual Atralian Human Rights Commissn hailed the amendments as an important step on the road to full equaly for same-sex upl.

ATRALIA SENATOR LIVERS EMOTNAL SPEECH FOLLOWG UNTRY'S GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

The chang allowed "people to have digny", says Lyle Shelton, a former journalist and polil adviser who is now managg director of a Christian lobby then there has been a ph to change Atralia's marriage laws to allow same-sex upl to legally Mr Shelton says this is a step too Atralian Christian Lobby (ACL) - a grass roots movement of people who want to ject Christian ethics to natnal polics - do not want the fn of marriage to be wined to clu same-sex he claims that the views of tradnal marriage supporters have been drowned out by gay lobbyists and the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Some people have taken to the streets llg for a change the lawMarriage is more than a romantic bond between two people, Mr Shelton told the is about brgg up children and children do bt when they have a mother and a father, he says.

GAY MARRIAGE BATE: TONY ABBOTT URG ATRALIA TO VOTE ‘NO’

Gettg married AtraliaAtralia's Marriage Act specifi marriage as a unn between a man and a woman Officially, the lg Liberal-Natnal aln do not support gay marriageThe opposn Labor party endors gay marriage, but allows s MPs a nscience vote on legislatn Opn polls show a majory of poll rponnts approve of gay marriage, Rults range om about 60% for Newspoll and Essential polls held June, to 72% for a Crosby Textor poll held last is joed by several new groups cludg Marriage Alliance and the Atralian Marriage Fom who claim the natnal bate is one-sid.