Posted on 12/15/2013 5:23:35 AM PST by topher
CANBERRA, December 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a unanimous ruling today the Australian High (Supreme) Court stuck down the same-sex "marriage" law passed less than a month ago by the parliament of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
The Australian Capital Territory is a statutory territory created to house the federal seat of government, and is mainly associated with the national capital, Canberra. It has internal self-government, but lacks the full legislative independence enjoyed by the Australian states.
The Court ruled that the Australian Capital Territory's Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 was inconsistent with the Federal Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and was therefore unconstitutional.
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There are been so many countries allow marriage to be defined as a perverted partnership
Here’s a finding by a foreign court that Ruth Bader Ginsburg can follow.
Big defeat for the coprophiles and assorted other mental cases.
Does anyone really think that if by chance our next president is a Republican that this would happen in the USA? So, in Hillary’s infamous words, “What difference does it make?” who wins election? The “Progressive” march to Hell moves on.
Excellent
Good for them. I wish we had their court.
You might be without your firearms if that happened. Think these clowns would overturn the firearms ban in Australia? No worries mate. (I know, there are firearms in Australia but the restrictions are absurd. At least to our way of thinking.)
You are right there, I have no intention of giving up my 2nd. Amendment rights.
Between this and what happened in India, it’s beginning to look like the pendulum will swing back. The liberal judges on our Supreme Court have an enthusiasm about considering foreign law in their decisions, after all.
bttt!
India, and now this.
Just goes to show that “progress” is not inevitable.
Me neither. Uh, that is if I had any such items. (Wonder what’s in that long box next to the Christmas Tree? May have to take another canoe trip on the lake in a severe storm.)
I think it is because we are a free country. We have to put up with the crap as well as the good stuff. Sometimes it seems like being the freest country in the World is not that great, hut overall it is.
This has the ring of truth.
I was surprise that Oz allow gay marriage until now
I think of Austriala as Men are men and women are Sheilas
Good news placemark.
People who are opposed to same-sex marriage need to stop thinking this is good news. It’s a “won the battle, but lost the war”.
The High Court ruled solely on a Constitutional issue. That is, that the Australian Constitution puts the power to legislate on the definition of marriage solely and expressly in the hands of the Federal Parliament (Section 51.xxi) State Parliaments, and Territorial Legislatures, can’t pass laws that have a different definition of marriage from the Federal one.
As the Australian Capital Territory’s Legislative Assembly had tried to do precisely that, it’s not surprising that the High Court struck down the law on constitutional grounds.
But the flip side of that, is this ruling also makes it clear that when the Parliament in Canberra decides to amend the Marriage Act to allow for same-sex marriage - which will definitely happen the next time we have a Labor government, and may well happen even earlier than that, there will be absolutely no Constitutional or other impediment to that happening.
We’ll have same-sex marriage across all of Australia within ten years. That’s now basically inevitable.
One small territory allowed it for one weekend. That's all.
But as I said in my last message, it's now pretty much inevitable that the whole country will have it within the decade.
“Rule One...”
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