by John | May 13, 2012 | Australian commentary
“I’ve always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally.” – Barack Obama After “evolving” on the issue for a couple of years, Barack Obama became the first serving US president to make public...
by John | May 11, 2012 | AME media releases, News, World news
Support for marriage equality from the political leaders of New Zealand has left Australia as the only developed, English-speaking democracy whose leaders oppose marriage equality. New Zealand’s Conservative prime Minister, John Key, has said he “is not...
by John | Apr 12, 2012 | News, World news
LONDON — Americans watching the latest push for social change in Britain might feel as if they had stepped into an alternate political universe: Here, the Conservatives are leading the charge for same-sex marriage. Gay couples in Britain won the right to civil...
by John | Mar 16, 2012 | Overseas commentary
As the author GK Chesterton observed, if you leave a thing to itself, you are leaving it to wild and violent changes. In America this week, David Cameron will see a Republican Party expending a great deal of time and energy deciding how, precisely, it will lose the...
by John | Mar 9, 2012 | Overseas commentary
When David Cameron told his party conference in October that he supported gay marriage because he was a Conservative, he may not have fully anticipated the range and force of the opposition that he would elicit. He knows now. Despite a torrent of criticism from...