Sydney’s gay marriage activists are expecting a large turnout this Saturday afternoon at the Town Hall, as a compromise has now been reached with the police and church landowners allowing their rally to go ahead – under some conditions.
The Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) crew were told last week that the owners of much of the land beside the Town Hall – the Anglican Diocese of Sydney – had ruled the ralliers could no longer use that space as a meeting point – but its organisers had told Same Same they were keen to carry on regardless, despite local police warning them off the site.
The police and the Anglican Church have now backed down somewhat, but are now attempting to impose a three-page-long list of conditions on the protest going ahead, say the marriage marching crew.
The conditions include that there will be no more than 1,000 protesters, that protesters will keep as far away from the church as possible, that the church can direct protesters who spill onto their side of the square, that police will have control over the volume of the sound system and that banners will not contain “offensive language or obscene slogans or pictures.”
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