Despite political trickery orchestrated by Prime Minister Tony Abbott essentially dooming it to fail, Liberal Party MP Warren Enstch today introduced a marriage equality bill into the Lower House.
“The main purpose of this bill is not a complex one. It is to give same-sex couples in Australia the same right to marry the person they love as that which is currently only granted by law to heterosexual couples.”
“This bill is designed to promote an inclusive Australia, not a divided one. A divided nation is what we will be if we continue to allow discrimination in relation to marriage on the basis of a person’s sexuality.”
The House as Warren Entsch introduced a private member’s bill on marriage equality pic.twitter.com/U7rla4ze7o
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Warren Entsch introduces #SSM bill surrounded by cross party support & front benchers @cpyne & @TurnbullMalcolm pic.twitter.com/J5O57zWjX8
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As he delivered the speech, Entsch was flanked by the bill’s co-sponsor, Labor’s Terri Butler, as well as other backers of the bill, including Labor MP Laurie Ferguson, the Liberals’ Teresa Gambero, Greens MP Adam Bandt, as well as crossbenchers Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan.
