and Now we wait

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=legcon_ctte/marriage_equality_2012/submissions.htm

Yes – from Shelly Argents Facebook post

[url=http://www.skynews.com.au/politics/article.aspx?id=735772&vId]http://www.skynews.com.au/politics/article.aspx?id=735772&vId

More than 45,000 Australians have told a Senate inquiry that they support same sex marriage, the lobby group Australian Marriage Equality (AME) says

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Thousands more submissions, both in favour and against same sex marriage, have been made directly to the inquiry.

A summary on the Parliament of Australia's website shows that as of March 26, 54 per cent of those who had made submissions agreed the law should be changed to allow same sex marriage.

Forty-five per cent disagreed and one per cent were undecided.

The deadline for submissions ended on Monday and a public hearing is due to be held in Sydney on April 12.

Nope – not a word – but my guess is they will take a LONG time to process them

and then probably take some time to decide what to do – its a politically charged issue.

The one thing that MAY be in our favour is that if Labour decide there is NO hope for the party in the next election – then they may decide to do some progressive things – just because it will make the Liberals look horrible to roll them back. (Labour did some stuff like that before the last state election)

However IF they decide there is a hope – then the submissions may be irrelevant. They may decide its too decisive and leave it alone as a no win situation (rather like a second airport for sydney !)

I would be surprised to hear an answer sooner rather than later.

Im am off to the AFL on sunday with someone who may have some more insight into the processs. Ill have a chat.

Hi Everyone,

Judging from the traffic stats on the Being Gay Being Christian Blog, many of you are visiting the site. I hope you are enjoying the posts and getting something out of them.

Tonight, I have just blogged a piece on gay marriage, a topic that I did not cover in the book, but a topic that is never far from the news regardless. The issues are complex, the opponents are loud and they are using many arguments to denounce the idea of gay people marrying their partners. The post at the URL below is therefore longer than usual because I felt it necessary to to try to answer their most common arrguments.

It's called Gays Getting Married – The Audacity.

http://beinggaybeingchristian.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/gays-getting-married-audacity.html

Best wishes – Stuart