Thoands rally for gay marriage Atralia ahead of vote | Rters

Contents:

• ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD THAT PROMPTED BACKLASH AGAST FOXTEL – VIO
• THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE
• 'YOU N SAY NO': FIRST ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD AIRS ATRALIA
• ATRALIA’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE ALLIANCE REBRANDS AS ANTI-TRANS GROUP
• 'MARRIAGE IS SACRED': THE RELIG RIGHT'S ARGUMENTS AGAST 'GAY MARRIAGE' ATRALIA
• ANTI-GAY POSTERS SURFACE ATRALIA AHEAD OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE
• SOME ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA
• ATRALIAN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE GROUPS WANT HATE SPEECH LAWS ‘SPEND’ FOR PUBLIC VOTE
• ANTI-GAY POSTER
• 18 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE – AND WHY THEY’RE BOLLOCKS.
• 'YOU N SAY NO': FIRST ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD AIRS ATRALIA
• SOME ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA

ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD THAT PROMPTED BACKLASH AGAST FOXTEL – VIO

Image source, Getty ImagTwenty years after Tasmania beme the last remag Atralian state to crimalise male homosexualy, the untry is havg s say on same-sex marriage. I've been lled a homophobe, a bigot and been told that my views are disgtg. 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.

His assailant was reportedly a church-goer opposed to gay marriage. 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. "Still wh (Atralian) society there is some latent phobia about what gay relatnships stand for, " he told the BBC.

THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE

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. Amics say the fight over gay marriage Atralia is a classic polil mpaign of "hope vers fear".

This advertisement, created by Atralian anti-gay marriage group, the Marriage Alliance, an iceberg metaphor to suggt marriage equaly pos hidn risks to tn, children and other rights. Atralia is set to have a natnwi vote on whether to legalize gay marriage.

Rpondg to the posters, he said: "I plore disrpectful, abive language whether is directed at young gay people or people of other religns or other rac.

'YOU N SAY NO': FIRST ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD AIRS ATRALIA

There was a mon theme that spanned across all the anti-gay marriage msag: homosexualy is evil.

Among them are claims that "92% of children raised by gay parents are abed, 51% have prsn, and 72% are obe.

In addn to the flammatory posters, opponents distributed pamphlets claimg that homosexualy is "a tragedy of a fay" and a "curse of ath termatg the fay le. The rhetoric ed bears strikg siary to that of certa anti-gay Christian groups leadg some to belief that the movement is religly motivated. If ed a Christian group is behd the c anti-gay posters, uld be a sign that once-popular relig stutns are now stgglg.

ATRALIA’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE ALLIANCE REBRANDS AS ANTI-TRANS GROUP

They might view gay marriage as a symbol of relig cle, and are th phg back extra hard agast the ia.

Or 's possible that opposn to marriage equaly Atralia stems om the age-old sentiment that gay marriage will irreparably harm the fay valu which support a moral society. [nL4N1LB1TJ]Rally aniser Anthony Wallace om activist group Equal Love said 15, 000 people attend the event, makg one of the largt gay rights ralli Atralian history. A number of Atralian mothers have voiced fears for their children’s futur if same-sex marriage is ma legal the first TV mercial aired om the “no” ad om the Coaln for Marriage is set to eerie piano mic, featurg three mothers who say they fear their fai will lose their “right to choose” as they bee exposed to the LGBTI has been wily panned by many the “y” mpaign, cludg Opposn lear Bill Shorten who lled “offensive and hurtful” to gay Atralians and their the 30-send mercial, mother Cella Whe claims her son’s school told him “he uld wear a drs next year if he felt like ” Whe says she whdrew her children om a school Victoria last year bee had a transgenr awarens program.

'MARRIAGE IS SACRED': THE RELIG RIGHT'S ARGUMENTS AGAST 'GAY MARRIAGE' ATRALIA

A mother says she's ncerned stunts are beg asked to role play a gay relatnship. Source: Supplied“When same sex marriage pass as law overseas this type of program bee (sic) wispread and pulsory, ” a send woman ad then fas to black wh the warng: “In untri wh gay marriage, parents have lost their rights to choose.

“This ad will play an important role helpg Atralians unrstand that sayg ‘y’ to gay marriage would mean sayg ‘y’ to radil gay sex tn schools, ” the webse stat. Homophobic piec of s***”, he tweeted.

ANTI-GAY POSTERS SURFACE ATRALIA AHEAD OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE

The anti-gay marriage group led the mpaign durg the 2017 postal vote on same-sex marriage that ultimately saw 61 percent of Atralians vote favour of equal marriage. 'Marriage is sacred': the relig right's arguments agast 'gay marriage' Atralia.

In 2004, the Atralian ernment legislated to prohib 'gay marriage'; the relig right had lobbied vigoroly for passage of this legislatn.

Drawg on Durkheim's theory of sacred and profane, this paper exam the argument proffered by right-wg Christians that allowg legalised unns between lbians and between gay men would serly unrme the stutn of marriage and the fay.

SOME ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA

Claims about the spectre of gays and lbians marryg reveal a eper unease about the stat of heterosexual marriage and the nuclear fay.

ATRALIAN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE GROUPS WANT HATE SPEECH LAWS ‘SPEND’ FOR PUBLIC VOTE

Pneers partnership: lbian and gay male upl civil unns pared wh those not civil unns and married heterosexual siblgs.

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The rise and fall of civil unns: lsons om the Connecticut legislature's abandonment of gay and lbian cizens. Beyond "homophobia": a social psychologil perspective on attus toward lbians and gay men. This fom aims to get beyond the gay lobby's adult-centred narcissism of "feelg the love".

ANTI-GAY POSTER

All Atralians are ee to marry, but gay people don't want to: they jt want the law to change and ll same-sex iendships "marriage"...

18 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE – AND WHY THEY’RE BOLLOCKS.

GAY MEN SPEAK AGAINST GAY 'MARRIAGE'.

'YOU N SAY NO': FIRST ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD AIRS ATRALIA

SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE "OR ELSE"!!!

SOME ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA

WHAT GAY 'MARRIAGE' HAS DONE OVERSEAS. Between givg prry to children's rights or to homosexual adults' claims.

23, 2017SYDNEY, Atralia — In the lead-up to a vote on legalizg same-sex marriage Atralia, vrlic mpaign materials, cludg fliers llg homosexualy “a tragedy of a fay, ” circulated this week Melbourne and fliers, the latt salvo a heated natnal bate that has volved policians and relig lears, were nounced by Prime Mister Mallm Turnbull on will “often say thgs that are hurtful and unfair and sometim cel, but that is part of a bate, ” Mr. ”“I plore disrpectful, abive language whether is directed at young gay people, or other religns or other rac, ” he Catholic Church, also this week, threatened to fire any lay employee who married his or her same-sex partner if gay marriage were Tsikas/European Prsphoto AgencyAtralians have until Thursday to register for ballots the voluntary postal vote, approved this month after the Senate rejected openg the polls for a mandatory, -person vote.