Australia In-Out Gay Marriage Policy Shambles

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25344219

Australia high court overturns ACT gay marriage law

Australia's High Court has overturned legislation allowing gay marriage in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

The ACT parliament passed a bill in October making the territory the first part of Australia to legalise same-sex weddings.

But the national government challenged the decision, saying it was inconsistent with federal laws.

Some 27 couples who married since the law came into effect last weekend will now have their unions declared invalid.

The legislation had allowed gay couples to marry inside the ACT, which includes the Australian capital, Canberra - regardless of which state they live in.

Federal law, however, specified in 2004 that marriage was between a man and a woman.

Civil unions are allowed in some states in Australia.

(continued, it's the modern world or not?)

[pErvinalia]

Now that's it's totally clear this is a parliamentary/political issue, I hope we will move quickly to pressure the pollies to get out of the way of this and legalise it. The problem is, we have an ultra-conservative new government in. They don't like teh gayz. Or refugees. Or scientists. Or childcare and aged care workers. Basically they are conservative cunts. Oops, i"m ranting...

[Clinton Huxley]

Now that's it's totally clear this is a parliamentary/political issue, I hope we will move quickly to pressure the pollies to get out of the way of this and legalise it. The problem is, we have an ultra-conservative new government in. They don't like teh gayz. Or refugees. Or scientists. Or childcare and aged care workers. Basically they are conservative cunts. Oops, i"m ranting...

No one likes a Tory....

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.” Elbert Hubbard.

[JimC]

It's also a power struggle between state and federal politicians...

[Audley Strange]

So you know how if you travel out into orbit you enter a slightly different time track? Is Oz now so distant from us that relativistically it appears to us to be moving backwards into the 1870's. Incest Cults, Puritans, before you know it we'll be inviting your loonies and criminals to come work in our pubs and media.