The head of Australia’s second largest Christian denomination has admitted that there are adequate protections for religious groups in the Marriage Act and that none of the three marriage equality bills before the parliament would affect those protections.
The Anglican Primate of Australia, Dr Phillip Aspinall’s views about religious protections were made public by Australian Marriage Equality (AME) national campaign director Rodney Croome when he read out a letter from Aspinall in the closing minutes of the House of Representatives hearings into same-sex marriage held in the NSW Parliament today.