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GAY ATRALIAN POLICIAN PROPOS DURG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DEBATE

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ATRALIAN POLIL LEARS AGREE GAYS DON'T GO TO HELL

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GAY POLICIAN PROPOS DURG ATRALIA'S SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DEBATE

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4, 2017SYDNEY, Atralia — Lawmakers Atralia’s Hoe of Reprentativ me ready on Monday for a fal bate on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage the one member had a particularly important qutn prepared: a proposal to his long-term a speech, Tim Wilson, 37, an openly gay member of Parliament wh the center-right Liberal party, spoke emotnally of the stggl he and his partner, Ryan Bolger, had enuntered as a gay uple. CANBERRA, Atralia — The lears of both of Atralia's major polil parti agreed on Tuday that gays don't go to hell bee of their sexual orientatn, as Christian beliefs rose to extraordary promence the fal days of an electn Mister Stt Morrison opposed gay marriage while opposn lear Bill Shorten argued for marriage equaly ahead of a natnal vote 2017 that led to Atralia legally regnizg same-sex unns.

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Morrison, a Pentestal Christian, acced Shorten, a Catholic before nvertg to his send wife's Anglin fah, of a "sperate, cheap shot" ahead of electns on Saturday by challengg the prime mister to say whether he believed gays went to photo: Atralian Opposn lear Bill Shorten celebrat the same-sex marriage postal survey Y rult Melbourne, Atralia on Nov. 15, Enrique Ascui / EPAMorrison said he did not believe gays went to hell, after failg to directly answer the same qutn om a journalist a day earlier.

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WATCH THIS GAY ATRALIAN POLICIAN SHUT DOWN HER MANTERPTG COLLEAGUE

A proment gay Atralian polician married his longtime partner Wednday southern Spa, two months after his untry voted down a proposal to enact same-sex marriage legislatn. * gay australian politician *

"I nnot believe that the prime mister has not immediately said that gay people will not go to hell, " he told Tuday, police charged 15 Greenpeace activists followg a prott on Sydney Harbor Bridge mandg climate change has pledged to rce Atralia's greenhoe gas emissns by 45% below 2005 levels by 2030. An Atralian member of Parliament proposed to his longtime partner durg a bate over same-sex answer was a roundg Wilson, an openly gay polician, popped the qutn om the floor of the Hoe of Reprentativ Monday. "A bill to legalize gay marriage passed the Senate last week.

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The leathery-lookg ducements are havg a limed effect on the whimperg ball of curls, a signer dog bred for the subject we’re about to discs – g out as a gay man at 64 – nerv would be unrstandable, pecially after four s of a picture-perfect, very public heterosexual marriage and a reer voted to nservative polics. “I have always been gay, not bisexual; that’s not a term I intify wh, ” says Yabsley, who is now 65.

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Yet for many men of Yabsley’s generatn, homosexualy was still illegal durg their teens and 20s. Gay sex remaed a crime Tasmania up until 1994, when Pl Keatg’s feral Labor ernment passed the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, uniformly crimalisg nsensual gay sex throughout nservative polil circl Atralia, there is still only a handful of men who openly intify as acceptance has grown as Yabsley has aged, but gay and lbian people public life, let alone the nservative bastns of bs and polics, are still relatively rare. The first outwardly gay polician eher feral or state parliament was former senator and Greens lear Bob Brown, a GP who clared his illegal, same-sex relatnship a newspaper terview 1976, years before enterg Tasmania’s state parliament half a century later, nservative polil circl Atralia, there is still only a handful of men who openly intify as gay, the most high-profile beg North Sydney feral Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, feral Liberal member for Brisbane Trevor Evans and former Human Rights Commissner and Liberal member for Goldste, Tim Wilson.

“In that era, to be gay meant that you uldn’t have that... He talks enthiastilly about visg Sydney’s gay bars, chuckl about gog to men-only parti lled Thick ‘N’ Juicy and speaks wh utter nvictn about a new relatnship wh a man 20 years his junr, wh whom he says he’s “madly love” but who he’s termed to protect om public g out, Yabsley has experienced homophobia first-hand, beg asked to leave a homewar shop by a secury guard who saw the uple “nocently” kissg. When I unter that “out” gay people have experienced such discrimatn for most of their liv, his tone softens.

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“I have never thought of myself as a poster-boy for gay law reform, but I certaly want to do my b to achieve equaly. Here ner Sydney’s Darlghurst – jt a few hundred metr om where the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras has been held sce 1978 on Oxford Street’s once-feted “Goln Mile” – rabow flags rate neighbourg balni. Homosexualy, while not only illegal at the time, was well and tly “monised” his fay.

” The church’s teachgs on homosexualy do not rt fortably wh him today. Dcribg his homosexualy at the time as “eply closeted” and the source of “much guilt”, he says his relatnship wh Sie was genue and mutually satisfyg om the start. In the same year, he feated Labor MP Fred Miller to w the state ner-cy seat of Bligh (later renamed Sydney), which stretched om well-heeled Darlg Pot to socially disadvantaged Redfern, and went on to vote favour of Labor Premier Neville Wran’s bill to crimalise homosexualy.

The crime of gay sex had rried a 14-year jail term. Dpe a state-wi swg to the nservativ that saw Labor lose ernment, the trend ner-cy Bligh was the oppose directn, and a strong mpaign the gay prs had urged voters to support Moore. The now-funct news magaze The Bullet efully noted that “Gay Power” had hung Yabsley.

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