Thursday night’s Twitter forum on same-sex marriage reached more than 20,000 people, and made thousands more individual impressions, with the former NSW premier Kristina Keneally, the Star Observer, New Mardi Gras and Australian Marriage Equality all taking part alongside high profile community members including dancer Ripley Waters, DJs Seymour Butz and Dan Murphy, and puppet drag queen Queen Miss Left Titter.

Following the forum, organiser Toro Productions tweeted “A quick analysis of the last 50 tweets: We reached 21,144 ppl and exposed 35,262 impressions http://t.co/R6XSTTHX AMAZING! #Equality.”

In her contributions to the forum Keneally urged people to find common ground with supportive people of faith on the issue and warned that civil unions would “undermine marriage for straight families” as well as same-sex couples if introduced instead of full marriage equality.

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Former NSW premier Kristina Keneally will be one of a panel of special guest contributors in a live Twitter forum on marriage equality, taking place from 8-9pm this Thursday, September 29.

Keneally recently outlined her support for same-sex marriage on ABC TV’s Q and A and in an article in Eureka Street magazine.

“If we accept that heterosexual people who are physically unable to have children are able to express themselves in physical acts, why then aren’t people who God created with a homosexual orientation able to do the same?” Keneally wrote in Eureka Street in response to religious disapproval of same-sex relationships.

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