Liberal senator Guy Barnett and the Australian Christian Lobby have urged the Federal Government to rule out allowing same-sex couples to marry.
The Australian Human Rights Commission told a Senate estimates hearing yesterday that it broadly supported gay marriage.
Commission president Catherine Branson suggested repealing the Marriage Act and replacing it with another form of relationship recognition legislation.
“We are not, pardon the pun, particularly wedded to the Marriage Act,” she told the hearing, noting the primary concern was removing discrimination.
ACL director Jim Wallace says the commission’s comments perpetuated the myth that denying homosexuals marriage was an issue of discrimination.
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