by Carol Burger | Feb 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Rod Bower believes one hundred per cent in the sanctity of marriage. What he doesn’t believe is that any loving couple should be precluded from enjoying a legal marital union on the basis on sexuality, nationality or religious persuasion. That’s why Fr Bower, of the...
by Carol Burger | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
MODERN Family’s Aussie TV adventure will be used to put the country’s same sex marriage laws back on the agenda, with key cast members revealing they were “deeply saddened” by recent rollback in legislation. Eric Stonestreet, who plays gay dad Cameron Tucker on the...
by Jen | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Same-Sex marriage supporters Mara Schneiders and Bel St Clair made a symbolic Valentine’s Day delivery to the electorate office of Liberal MHR Andrew Nikolic yesterday. The two Bass constituents arrived on foot at the St John Street headquarters to deliver a...
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...
