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500 Australian religious leaders strongly support Same Sex Marriage
Posted by Ron
Friday, August 11th 2017 @ 07:34:53 AM EST

From GayStarNews"As the Australian government heads into the party room for an emergency meeting to debate how to move forward on marriage equality, more than 500 religious leaders have declared their support.

The leaders from various religions have sent an open letter Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his government supporting marriage equality.

The letter comes a day after conservative Senator Dean Smith's draft Bill on the issue. His Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 would allow religious organizations to refuse to marry same-sex couples.

The largest number of signatories came from the Uniting Church of Australia (22%), Anglicans (18%) and Catholics (13%). The leaders have signed alongside religious leaders from Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu communities." For the complete article, Click Here.

(At left: James Besanvalle and Matt Horwood, a Brit/Australian couple, are having a civil union performed today in London. When same sex marriage is legal in Australia, they will marry there.)

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