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malcolm turnbull on gay marriage

Mallm Turnbull pledged to 'get on wh ' and troduce gay marriage by Christmas, mut after Atralia overwhelmgly voted y the postal survey on Wednday.

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MALLM TURNBULL'S LEGACY: GAY MARRIAGE, TPP AND THE ENOMY

CANBERRA, Atralia (AP) — Atralia's prime mister shed gay marriage to law on Friday by gag a fal signature on a bill hours after was overwhelmg endorsed by Parliament and as the natn started planng weddgs that n take place a month. * malcolm turnbull on gay marriage *

Turnbull was asked about homophobic mpaign materials disvered at the weekend, cludg a poster found Melbourne urgg Atralians to “stop the fags” and rrectly claimg that children of gay parents disproportnately suffer prime mister said that Atralian society “is built on a foundatn of mutual rpect, so I plore disrpectful, abive language whether is directed at young gay people, or people of other religns, or people of other rac”. They are not homophobic, they don’t nigrate gay people.

Are not gay people gettg married, the threats are sertn, celty, neglect, abandonment, difference – those are the threats.

MALLM TURNBULL IS BLASTED AFTER BOASTG ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

'Fai and iends were actured bee of you': Mallm Turnbull is savaged for boastg about legalisg same-sex marriage AtraliaMallm Turnbull has been slammed for boastg about legalisg gay marriageMr Turnbull ngratulated Atralia year after rults of survey were announcedHe was cricised for allowg the issue to be rolved wh a divisive public vote Published: 06:47 BST, 15 November 2018 | Updated: 06:47 BST, 15 November 2018. Mallm Turnbull has been slammed for boastg about legalisg gay marriage on the one-year anniversary of the historic vote.

REFLECTNS ON GAY MARRIAGE - MICHAEL KIRBY LECTURE 2012

Mallm Turnbull has been slammed for boastg about legalisg gay marriage on the one-year anniversary of the historic vote Mr Turnbull was harshly cricised for allowg the issue to be cid by an at-tim divisive public vote which st $81ln (people celebratg the y vote)'A year has passed and nearly five thoand same-sex upl have been married... 'Former Prime Mister Tony Abbott's sister Christe Forster - an outspoken supporter of gay marriage spe her brother's opposn - also took to social media a year on om the rult announcement.

Thoands of people lerally dancg the and old, gay and straight (mostly gay) revellg the moment that people won over a cy famo for a grim adherence to l and orr, police lmly watched on as party-goers passed around beers purchased om the lol bottle ACT's Chief Mister even skolled a Corona on stage (wh a slice of lemon , of urse) sg stranger hugged me and said, "Don't ever change. I bumped to a gay (and happy) Feral MP, who'd hated the ia of a people's vote. Gay women have proved more likely than men to marry, wh the most weddgs celebrated NSW and Victoria.

ATRALIAN PRIME MISTER SH GAY MARRIAGE TO LAW

Marriage equaly mpaigner Sally Rugg said the procs was not somethg gays and lbians uld ever celebrate.

Michael has also been a mpaigner for what has been termed “gay marriage” and to his dismay this is how he is bt known today not least bee he is a gay man and has lived wh his partner Johan for over forty years[1]. So I tst Michael will five me tonight if, rather than ncentratg on some other aspects of his work the field of human rights, I ncentrate on the issue of gay marriage which is a particularly timely one given there are several bills the Parliament which, if passed, would have the effect of allowg unns between two people of the same sex to be scribed as a marriage. And the Governments of the Uned Kgdom and of France, which already provi for civil unns for same sex upl, have announced they will legislate for gay marriage as well[3].

However over time as I have reflected on this qutn of “marriage equaly” I have found the arguments agast gay marriage ls and ls nvcg. Many people who oppose gay marriage do so bee, generally for relig reasons, they regard homosexualy as herently wrong, a crime the ey of God.

'HYPOCRL' TURNBULL UNRMED GAY MARRIAGE SHIFT

Acrdg to the Book of Levic God speakg to Mos scribed homosexual acts as an abomatn and lls for those who practise them to be put to ath[5]. So no matter how sful some Atralians may thk homosexual acts may be, no matter how praved and disorred or worthy of the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah they nsir them to be, the are opns which are not reflected our laws today. Of urse for many years now homosexual acts have been lawful, and same sex relatnships regnised by the law.

TURNBULL SAYS PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE WILL OVERSHADOW COALN'S MSAG

Only a very, very small mory of Atralians would seek to have this state of affairs changed so as to recrimalise homosexual acts or disentle homosexual upl om the var entlements they enjoy followg the reforms of the last or so.

GAY MARRIAGE ULD PASS TODAY: SHORTENMARRIAGE EQUALY WOULD BEE A REALY IF LEGISLATN WAS TRODUCED TO FERAL PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK, SAYS OPPOSN LEAR BILL SHORTEN.A GAY UPLE KISS DUBL CASTLE SQUARE FOLLOWG IRELAND'S SUCCSFUL REFERENDUM ON LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGA MARRIAGE EQUALY BILL WOULD PASS IF WAS PRENTED FERAL PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK, LABOR LEAR BILL SHORTEN SAYS.SPEAKG AT MELBOURNE'S ANNUAL MIDSUMMA GAY PRI MARCH ON SUNDAY, MR SHORTEN LLED ON THE PRIME MISTER TO GO BACK TO BEG THE "OLD" MALLM TURNBULL WHO BELIEVED MARRIAGE EQUALY.MR SHORTEN SAID ABOUT 95 PER CENT OF LABOR MPS, A SIZEABLE NUMBER OF LIBERAL MPS AS WELL AS THE GREENS AND NON-ALIGNED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WOULD ALL VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE IF THEY HAD THE OPTN.RELATED READGABBOTT TO RPECT PEOPLE ON SAME-SEX VOTEAS A PARA OF RABOW-CLAD MEN AND WOMEN FILTERED AND OUT OF VIEW, MR SHORTEN PROMISED THAT MARRIAGE EQUALY ULD HAPPEN UNR A LABOR ERNMENT WHOUT WASTG $160 LN ON A PLEBISCE."WH 100 DAYS WE WILL PUT LEGISLATN THE PARLIAMENT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY AND ALL MPS N VOTE ACRDG TO THEIR CHOICE," HE PROMISED THE CROWD."LABOR WILL GET THE JOB DONE QUICKLY."MR SHORTEN SAID HE BELIEVED A WORKG MAJORY OF LIBERAL MPS SUPPORTED GAY MARRIAGE.THE PLANNED PLEBISCE WAS A WASTE OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY AND THE ISSUE ULD BE ROLVED QUICKLY IF MR TURNBULL REVERTED TO HIS "NVICTN POLICIAN" ROOTS, HE TOLD REPORTERS."PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY ANTI-MARRIAGE EQUALY ARE EXCED FOR THE PLEBISCE: THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE A NSCIENCE VOTE PARLIAMENT," HE SAID."I'M NFINT IF THE NEW MALLM TURNBULL ACTUALLY DID WHAT THE OLD MALLM TURNBULL SAID, WE ULD HAVE MARRIAGE EQUALY BY THE END OF FEBARY THIS UNTRY."MR SHORTEN, A GREY SU, WAS OUTSHONE BY HUNDREDS OF ALL AG GLTERG STUM AND FEATHERS, WHO MARCHED DOWN ST KILDA'S FZROY STREET.RELATED READGMAJORY OF MPS NOW SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAYS EQUALY GROUPAN ONLOOKER TOLD AAP THE SOUND OF THE BAGPIP FILTERG THROUGH THE ROAR OF THE CROWD "ROED THE SPIR"."WHAT A LOVELY DAY TO HAVE A PARA," HE SAID.SHARE2 M READPUBLISHED 31 JANUARY 2016 3:10PMUPDATED 31 JANUARY 2016 5:50PMSOURCE: AAPTAGSSOCIAL ISSUSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

Certaly none of the Church lears who are volly opposed to legalisg gay marriage have suggted any change to the law as stands.

Another source of objectn to gay marriage relat to children. Havg said all that, this argument agast gay marriage stat that if gay upl are regnised as beg married they will be more likely to be able to adopt children. First, even though there is no legal regnn of gay marriage Atralia, nohels same sex upl are able to adopt children New South Wal, the ACT and Wtern Atralia and to a limed extent Tasmania In almost all s, so I am advised, this volv a person adoptg the blogil child of their partner – “a known child” ado.

MALLM TURNBULL MANDS GAY MARRIAGE LAW BY CHRISTMAS

Turng to another argument agast gay marriage we have the proposn, wily put around, that will unrme the tradnal stutn of marriage. The rponse, I might add, was 73% favour of gay marriage[10]. It angers and sadns me to suffer the homophobia displayed by those ristg this simple change.

I am sure that every gay person has alt wh that sense of “excln” at some pot life.

ATRALIA’S LEAR CALLS FOR NATNAL GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

And I have to say that I am utterly unpersuad by the proposn that my marriage to Lucy, or ed any marriage, is unrmed by two gay men or two lbians settg up hoe down the road — whether is lled a marriage or not. The threat to marriage is not the gays.

But, do the bishops serly image that legalisg gay marriage will rult thoands of parti to heterosexual marriag sudnly cidg to get divorced so they n marry a person of the same sex?

MALLM TURNBULL LOOKS FORWARD TO MACKLEMORE SGG ‘GAY ANTHEM’

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their mment to each other, holdg up a mirror to the heterosexuals who are marryg ls equently and divorcg more often? John Howard was not thkg of gay upl when he said 1995 “A stable functng fay provis the bt welfare support system yet vised.

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