Senate votes against same-sex marriage bill amendments
Posted on November 29, 2017
Filed under Australia, Culture wars
“All five amendments put forward by conservative senators James Paterson and David Fawcett to their Liberal colleague Dean Smith’s private same-sex marriage bill were voted down …
Senators Paterson and Fawcett’s changes sought to:
- Protect civil celebrants refusing to marry gay couples.
- Create two definitions of marriage — one as between a man and a woman and the other as between two people.
- Protect “relevant beliefs” around marriage.
- Prevent governments and agencies from taking action against people with a traditional view of marriage.
- Allow parents to remove their children from classes if they believe material taught is inconsistent with their views on marriage. …”
– Full story from The Daily Telegraph. (subscrip
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