Recently, Australia’s ruling Labor Party has been fighting off an attempt to legalize same-sex marriage. The problem was that rank-and-file members, and most voters, support marriage equality, while left-wing Prime Minister Julia Gillard does not. She is quite adamant in her opposition.
She claims that she is protecting “traditional” marriage, but she lives with a man herself, outside marriage. Gillard’s rabid anti-gay position has a lot of Labor supporters scratching their heads.
Gillard has a problem. At the recent Labor Party conference, prominent members pushed marriage equality as a plank for the party. This would require Labor MPs to vote for equality legislation that their own party leader opposes.
Full Story from the Huffington Post
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