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Contents:

• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• ATRALIA IS HAVG A PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE -- HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE: WHEN TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IS A BAD THG
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

Whout the Nick Xenophon Team's support for the legislatn, the Government nnot rely on the crossbench, leavg the stg vote up to Labor the is holdg off on a fal cisn but has been raisg ser ncerns about a plebisce through the Opposn Lear Bill Shorten and other senr MPs and party has also been privately briefg reporters that will eventually block the there is a polil hch bee once a plebisce is off the table, the Labor Party is unlikely to be able to force a ee vote of both ho s are fears that uld punt the issue off to the next term of parliament, ensurg there is no prospect of gay people beg able to marry before the next do mean for voters?

ATRALIA IS HAVG A PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE -- HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS

Whether that was accurate or not, that is how many the gay muny felt. Dpe the emotnal turmoil and pa, many LGBTIQ people went to that vote feelg, the entire mpaign for a y vote was about hearts and mds —  actively pulled at the heartstrgs of Atralians who had a gay child, uncle, niece or work mate.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Returng to Pearson's central premise — that a Voice would rce racism Atralia — let's look at the only parison we have: the same sex marriage end homophobia? ”But, 2013, the High Court found that marriage the Constutn clus “a marriage between persons of the same sex” and that “unr the Constutn and feral law as now stands, whether same sex marriage should be provid for by law is a matter for the feral Parliament” ma clear the feral ernment had the power to enact marriage more and more untri began legalisg gay marriage, Atralia was left behd. ”Mr Turnbull has prevly been an advote on the issue (his electorate of Wentworth Sydney’s eastern suburbs has a high ncentratn of homosexual rints), nfirmg both he and wife Lucy are favour of same-sex due to a number of nservative aln MPs strongly held views, a plebisce is seen as an alternative PLEBISCITEAfter the failure last year to ph the plebisce through parliament, yterday's party room meetg sentially voted favour of a back up plan - a postal plebisce.

“The ernment is absolutely mted to keep fah wh the mment that we ma to the Atralian people and that is to give Atralian people a say on whether or not the fn of marriage should be changed, ” Senator Cormann more: Ele Catholic schools fend gay marriageWHAT WOULD BE NEEDED FOR THE PLEBISCITE TO 'PASS'? It also provis a platform for those opposed to misrm the public and air anti-gay views.

A prehensive “no” vote uld ph the issue back s, siar to what happened wh the Atralian republic bate after the 1999 only circu-breaker would be a swch om the Coaln to a Labor ernment, which would likely have the numbers to get gay marriage over the le. CONSEQUENCESA plebisce would give anti-gay mpaigners the biggt stage they have ever had, acrdg to quot US rearch, which has shown that the mental health of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people suffered signifintly durg referendum bat on marriage LGBTI people who experienced a US state referendum on marriage equaly there was a 37 per cent crease mood disorrs, a 42 per cent crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248 per cent generalised anxiety disorrs.

THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE: WHEN TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IS A BAD THG

More on Forb: The Asian Countri Are The Most Likely To Adopt A Gay Marriage Law. However, spe this, Prime Mister Turnbull has exprsed that he would not support a bill relatg to gay marriage until there is a vote of the Atralian people. Marriage equaly activists fear this uld equate to ceptive and hateful material aimed at Atralia’s gay muny.

Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy s ago, animosy agast gays remas high. In 2012, the Mosw cy ernment orred that gay pri paras be banned for the next 100 years. Attacks on the gay muny persist.

Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se. Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts. He said he has worked on seven ctody s which judg refed to take away ctody, sayg that sexual orientatn don’t play a role a child’s he is ncerned that the nstutnal chang will enurage anti-gay views.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

“Our society really looks up to what the ernment do, so any kds of public actns promotg homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a ll for actn. ”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn.

Atralia don’t yet have gay marriage.

We on the rrect si of the bate here ll “marriage equaly, ” rather than “gay marriage, ” to unrsre that is a human rights issue and discrimatory to thk otherwise.