by John | Jan 13, 2012 | AME media releases, News
Marriage equality advocates say they are increasingly confident that gay Australians married in Canada have nothing to fear from a Canadian Government document declaring same-sex marriages involving overseas couples are invalid. Australian Marriage Equality national...
by John | Jan 13, 2012 | AME media releases, News
Marriage equality advocates have reassured Australian tennis champion, Margaret Court, that she has nothing to fear from same-sex couples marrying. Australian Marriage Equality spokesperson, Rodney Croome, said churches will not be forced to marry same-sex couples....
by John | Jan 13, 2012 | Australian news, News
A LEADING psychologist has warned Member for Burnett Rob Messenger’s bid to overturn civil unions could endanger the wellbeing of gay and lesbian people across the state. Mr Messenger released the copy of draft legislation in December, aiming to repeal same-sex civil...
by John | Jan 13, 2012 | Australian news, News
AUSTRALIAN Open tournament organisers face calls for Margaret Court’s name to be stripped from the arena that bears it because of her outspoken views against homosexuality. Kerryn Phelps, one of Australia’s best-known gay women, said the former champion...
by John | Jan 13, 2012 | AME media releases, News
Australia’s marriage equality advocates are appalled the Canadian Government has decided the hundreds of Australian same-sex couples who married in Canada after same-sex marriage was legalised in that country in 2003 are not legally wed. In a document filed in a...
by John | Jan 13, 2012 | News, World news
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government has abruptly started to argue that the same-sex marriages of many foreigners who wed in Canada are not valid, a move that stunned the gay community and could affect thousands of couples. In 2005, Canada became one of...