The temperature is rising in Australia. There is nothing like a celebrity scorned and a minor party getting their way in Parliament to upset homophobic bliss.
Portia De Rossi told 702 ABC Radio Sydney that she expected Australia to be a world leader on the issue. ”I always thought Australia would pass this equal rights law long before America would,” she said.
Parliament voted 73-72 for MPs to gauge feelings among voters about gay weddings, which are currently banned under Australian law and opposed by both major parties.
Tags: Adam Bandt gay marriage, Australian Greens gay marriage, Julia Gillard gay marriage, Portia de Generes, Portia de Rossi
This is what shits me about our laws, they want us to reconise our relationship with centrelink (unemployment) but they won’t reconise our rights to be happy and marry the person you are truely in love with, you can’t help who you fall in love with, and parliment saying we don’t care who you marry, just don’t expect our blessings, well we don’t want your blessing we just want the right to marry whoever we want to.
What she said was hardly an attack (at least the quotes I’ve read). Far from scorn, it was more like mild disapproval. What it says above is just a statement of fact – that she thought Australia would beat the US to the punch – and all I found elsewhere, apart from more statements of fact about the situation (ie its legality in CA) was that she was, I quote “a little bit disappointed” with Gillard.
If that counts as an “attack” then I’ve had Facebook statuses that would count as first-degree murder.
I agree with Trish, it’s about time that this nation proves its equal treatment/equal justice to everything which includes equal marriage rights whether same sex marriage, inter-racial or whatever…. People should have the right to fall in love and prove their love thru marriage if they chose to regardless of sex/gender and this should be legalized to make it valid…. Please have a heart.