Gay couples dine with PM
Three gay couples from around Australia will join Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Lodge tomorrow night for their promised dinner-date.
Marriage equality advocates say they are looking forward to the opportunity to break bread with the Prime Minister to put forward their case to legalise gay marriage.
Last year grassroots campaign group GetUp! successfully bid $31,000 for the intimate dinner with Gillard as part of the Canberra Press Gallery’s Midwinter Charity Ball.
Australian Marriage Equality (AME) national spokesperson Alex Greenwich, also attending the dinner, said he was looking forward to the night.
“We will share with Prime Minister why celebrating the meaning of marriage is so important to all Australians, including gay Australians,” Greenwich said.
“We also hope to use the dinner to alleviate any concerns that the Prime Minister may have around the issues of religious freedoms and protections.”
The three couples are from Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
OMG Can you just imagine Tony at dinner talking with his mouth full.
Usually with his foot.
$31,000 spent for lunch for 7 people – with a prime minister who had the opportunity to support gay marriage but declined and who has stated her opposition to gay marriage. A prime minister who will soon be out of office. $31,000 dollars.
(yes, I know the $31 THOUSAND went to charity – I also know that several gay charities are going without)
It will be worth it, I am sure. I can just see, after hearing of the undying love and deep desire of the three couples to get married, that our unmarried, living in sin, caterer to the bogan christian right, will suddenly leap up from her seat, having seen the light, HALLELUJAH! and declare labors intention to immediately change their minds and support gay marriage law. It will be a watershed moment in Australia Gay History.
Where do I sign up to donate for the lunch with Tony, and the lunch with Fred Niles campaigns?