Coalition MP in favour of marriage
Opposition parliamentary secretary for the Murray-Darling Basin Simon Birmingham has spoken out in favour of same-sex marriage.
Birmingham told The Australian yesterday he believes the Coalition should be allowed a conscience vote on the issue and that he would “in principle” support change to allow for same-sex marriage.
Two other Coaltion MPs have spoken out in favour of gay marriage this week, long-term same-sex rights advocate Queensland MP Warren Entsch and Western Australian MP Mal Washer.
From the Labor Party, Senator Doug Cameron, right-wing power brokers Mark Arbib and Bill Shorten, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett, Victorian Ministers Maxine Morand and Bronwyn Pike, and South Australian MLC Ian Hunter have all spoken in favour of same-sex marriage.
Federal Greens MP Adam Bandt has moved a motion to call on parliamentarians to speak on the issue.
The Greens are pushing for a conscience vote for their Marriage Equality Amendment Bill, currently before Parliament.
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Help the sky is falling the sky is falling!
tasmania is bankrupt (propped up by the federation)
so is spain, iceland, argentina, south africa (all gay marriage countries)
gay marriage is just one issues that go hand in hand with the communist agenda
ie
gay marriage, euthenasia, abortion, promote U.N to govern as unelected world order, socialistic policies in regulation, gov bailouts, massive gov pensions, ETS, global warming scare mongering
all part of the big picture on the road to communism
destroy the entrenched social fabric, add in scare mongering and egaliatrian policies, weaken the economy and then you have a recipe for communism
DO NOT BE FOOLED- GREENS WILL BANKRUPT AUSTRALIA AND ARE GOING FOR THE GAY VOTE TO IMPLIMENT THE LUNATIC POLICIES_
DO NOT BE FOOLED
The Greens produced really good policy in Tasmania with a coalition government with Labor. They worked with rural communities to deliver outcomes that Labor and Liberal could not deliver.
The Irony is the Liberal Party hounded a Gay GP called Bob Brown. In response to all this he and his friends formed the Greens. Now it was the Liberal Party that acted like Communist, they were the scary ones. They were utter bastards to people who were gay in Tasmania. They wanted us locked up for having consenting sex with our partner. They said we are like animals.
It is the Liberal Party that has worked with the Brethren hating people like us. It is the Liberal Party that helped produced brochures in Tasmania at the last election hating us and vilifying us.
The reason Same-Sex marriage is now in the spotlight is because of the Greens raising it.
Now you can say the sky is falling if we might get some basic rights. But I rather think the fog is lifting.
Even the Liberals now preference the Greens over Labor in most seats.
Had the Liberals not been such utter bastards to Bob Brown, we would never of had the Greens.
do not let the greens fool you in to voting for their communism by championing gay marriage-
it use no use being married if you are bankrupt and living under communism
do not be fooled- the Greens are communists
Malcom Turnbull is more and more looking like a true idiot who will cross the floor and not vote for Same-Sex Marriage.
To those of you using the Bible as a weapon against homosexuality, you are wrong. Homosexuality is not a sin. The Bible is constantly being taken out of context to support anti-gay views. Scholars who have studied the Bible in context of the times and in relation to other passages have shown those passages (Leviticus, Corinthians, Romans, etc) have nothing to do with homosexuality. These passages often cherry-picked while ignoring the rest of the Bible. The sins theses passages are referring to are idolatry, Greek temple sex worship, prostitution, pederasty with teen boys, and rape, not homosexuality or two loving consenting adults.
http://www.soulfoodministry.org/docs/English/NotASin.htm
http://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/bible_homosexuality_print.html
http://www.christchapel.com/reclaiming.html
http://www.stjohnsmcc.org/new/BibleAbuse/BiblicalReferences.php
http://www.gaychristian101.com/
http://www.mccchurch.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Resources&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2121
http://www.wouldjesusdiscriminate.org/biblical_evidence.html
http://www.soulforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible-gay-christian
http://www.goodhopemcc.org/spirituality/sexuality-and-bible/homosexuality-not-a-sin-not-a-sickness.html
Thats why Jesus never mentions it as well. There is nothing immoral, wrong, or sinful about being gay. Jesus, however, clearly states he HATES hypocrisy. If you preach goodness, then promote hate and twist the words of the Bible, you are a hypocrite, and will be judged and sent to hell. Homosexuals will not go to hell, hypocrites will.
go join the grrens
.I still seriously doubt that support would be there for marriage equality if a conscience vote was held today. I agree with Doug Cameron that the best course is for Labor to change its policy at its conference next year. If the ALP was bound to support it, the votes of Wilkie, Bandt, Washer and Entsch would be enough to get it over the line. Whereupon it would sail through the Senate because it would already have changed over (or be a month from changing over at the time of the ALP conference). In the meantime our community and the Greens need to keep up the pressure on the Labor Party so that more of their politicians (and who knows, maybe a few more Libs as well) come out in support of marriage equality.
Thank you Simon Birmingham, Mal Washer and warren Entsch.
Whilst it is good to hear these indidvidual MPs from both “sides” of politics come out in support of same-sex marriage – it is all for naught if a conscience vote is not permitted.
At this stage it would appear that the Liberal/National Coalition will be permitted a conscience vote – so it is great to see Liberal MPs supporting same-sex marriage.
Gillard is on public record – numerous times – of refusing Labor MPs a conscience vote on this issue; so unless Labor MPs are willing to be dis-endorsed by their party, what Labor MPs may say is meaningless, and they know it.
The recent flurry of Labor MP “support” is most likely nothing more than an attempt to divert votes away from the Greens in the Victorian election.