ACT attacks PM for gay law intervention
Paul Maley & Samantha Maiden; 6/5/08
The ACT Government has accused Kevin Rudd of pandering to the “extreme Christian Right” in its threat to scuttle the territory’s controversial civil partnerships bill. Yesterday, the ACT’s federal Labor members and senators were labelled hypocrites for failing to condemn the commonwealth after it threatened to disallow the bill on the grounds that it would mimic marriage. ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell accused the Prime Minister, a devout Christian, of “kow-towing” to the Christian lobby.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23652078-5013404,00.html
Highest praise for nuptials
Muriel Porter; 6/5/08
Predictably, the Australian Christian Lobby has praised the Rudd Government for deciding to override the ACT’s planned gay marriage legislation. Most Christians will be grateful, the lobby’s managing director, Jim Wallace, has said. Yes, the mainline churches will openly or tacitly agree with him, and I imagine many individual Christians will, too. But not all Christians will be happy with this backdown and some of us feel quite dismayed. Not many will speak up, however, because they have been effectively silenced by the recent concerted conservative push that has made homosexuality the great taboo in the churches.
See; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23650444-7583,00.html
Tags: Australia, ChristianityAdd new tag, Homosexuality, Marriage