by Carol Burger | Oct 10, 2013 | AME Talks, Australian news, Uncategorized
The federal government has confirmed it will challenge the ACT’s same-sex marriage laws in the High Court as soon as they are passed. “I’m not surprised but I’m disappointed that there is a failure to acknowledge that this fundamental matter of inequality needs...
by Carol Burger | Oct 10, 2013 | AME Talks, Australian news, Uncategorized
Tasmania’s gay couples are hopeful a new report will change the minds of MPs when the state’s same-sex marriage bill returns to parliament next week. The island state made a bid to go it alone on gay marriage last year when its lower house became the first...
by Carol Burger | Oct 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Marriage Equality Advocates have welcomed a Tasmanian Law Reform Institute report that strengthens the case for state based same-sex marriage and called on the federal government to “leave the states and territories alone”. Australian Marriage Equality Deputy...
by Carol Burger | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Reverend Chris Bedding of the Darlington-Bellevue Anglican parish says two-thirds of the church’s synod have voted to recognise same sex marriage. Anglicans in Perth have voted in favour of recognising same-sex relationships, including marriage. The Reverend...
by Carol Burger | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Pope Francis rocked the Catholic world last month when he gave a wide-ranging interview in which he declared that the church had become “obsessed” with a few moral issues and needed to find a “new balance.” Now a new poll indicates that American Catholics think he’s...
by Carol Burger | Oct 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was married once. In front of my family and friends I publicly declared a love I wasn’t sure I felt. It was a relationship that was all right and it seemed the next step. Perhaps I didn’t think I could do any better. I can’t really explain it, but...
