As President Obama works slowly on reforms such removing the counter-productive and discriminatory ban on openly gay and lesbian people in the US military, some positive news has come from India, where a Court has ruled that a law criminalising consensual sex between two people of the same gender breaches India’s Constitution.
Ironically, the law in [...]
However much Australians may like to portray the USA as being far more conservative and religious than us, the growing number of states in the USA which are legalising same-sex marriage suggests the reality may be somewhat different.
The state of Vermont has become the first state to pass legislation to explicitly make same-sex marriages legal. [...]
February 22, 2009 – 3:24 pm
It’s hard to think of another time when the goings on at a local Parish church has received so much media coverage. Father Peter Kennedy, the about-to-be-ex Parish priest of St Mary’s Catholic Church at South Brisbane, featured in the glossy weekend magazines of both The Courier-Mail and The Australian. This follows a myriad of previous [...]
November 10, 2008 – 7:20 pm
There has been a lot of publicity and justifiable disappointment about the decision by the voters of California to narrowly support – 52 per cent to 48 per cent – a proposal to change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in that state.
But the result which really astonished me [...]
October 12, 2008 – 6:54 am
The Supreme Court of Connecticut has ruled that it is unconstitutional in that state to deny same sex couples the right to marry, making it the third state in the USA, after Massachusetts and California, to provide equal recognition for same sex relationships. All of those states are now more advanced than anywhere in Australia when [...]
