The ALP Federal Electorate Council for Warringah has voted unanimously in favour of marriage equality and has called on the Government to introduce legislation of its own to legalise same-sex marriage.
Warringah Federal Electorate Council spokesman Daniel Sharp said the council saw the denial of same-sex marriage as an ongoing form of discrimination towards a sizable proportion of society -a stance which it views as an “untenable and unjustifiable situation in contemporary Australia.”
“This is a commonsense reform that builds on the Labor Government’s achievements to-date in removing much of the legal discrimination which had faced same gender couples prior to Labor’s election to government,” Sharp said.
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