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Shorten Offers to Drop Marriage Equality Bill

Hon Bill Shorten MP Official portrait 20 March 2013Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has offered to drop his marriage equality bill in favour of a cross party bill.

Mr Shorten made the offer at a marriage equality rally in Melbourne yesterday afternoon. Mr Shorten’s comments were reported in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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“What I offer Tony Abbott and the Liberals today is that if you don’t like that it’s the Labor people who are moving and seconding this law, we will relinquish our moving and seconding rights,” Mr Shorten said.

“If you want to have your name on the piece of paper, we’re happy with that. We just want everybody else to be able to put their name on a piece of paper too.”

Mr Shorten’s offer comes after Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the issue was an important one that should be owned by the whole parliament rather than a single party.

Senator Penny Wong, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson, Victorian Minister for Equality Martin Foley and state shadow minister for equality David Davis also spoke at the rally.

Senator Wong said the marriage quality movement was unstoppable.

“We are here because we see and are living through this unstoppable movement towards equality, towards acceptance and understanding, a quality that unfortunately remains absent in some parliamentarians,” Senator Wong said.

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1 COMMENT

  1. I do not approve of Equal Standing for Gay rights partnerships, God ordained marriage between a man and a woman and said death was the result of same sex practices,spiritual death and death because two people of the same sex cannot increase the human race. I stand with Jesus and he says NO to sex between two people of the same sex,we are either Christians and we obey Jesus or we are not and face the consequences and there is a place called HELL it does exist so think before you commit yourself to this cause.

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