by Carol Burger | Feb 17, 2014 | AME Talks, World news
The past two months have seen nonstop legal movement across the country toward marriage equality. What is happening, why, and when is it going to be resolved? WASHINGTON — Utah, Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Virginia. In the past two months, five federal judges...
by Carol Burger | Feb 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
SUSAN NICHOLLS and Christine Healy were the second couple in the ACT to have a civil partnership when they became legal in 2008. The pair have lived in Swinger Hill for 21 years and next year they celebrate their 30th anniversary. The couple agree with clinical...
by Carol Burger | Feb 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
SINCE May 2008 just nine civil unions pledged between members of the same sex as an alternative to marriage have been terminated in the ACT. It is a 1.1 per cent failure rate with 799 gay unions performed in the capital during the period. In the same period there were...
by Carol Burger | Feb 15, 2014 | Australian commentary, Australian news, Uncategorized
LILLEY MP Wayne Swan received two bunches of flowers on Valentines Day from two northsiders who want to know why they are still waiting for marriage equality. It was part of Australian Marriage Equality Inc’s campaign to remind MPs gay couples were still waiting to...
by Carol Burger | Feb 15, 2014 | Australian commentary, Australian news
More than 50 couples across Australia offered Valentine’s Day bouquets to federal MPs today in an Australian Marriage Equality campaign for same-sex marriage. Among them was Greenough couple Brent and Sarah Allen-Hauser, who visited the Geraldton office of Federal...