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    Australian prime minister to host dinner for 2 lesbian couples and a pair of gay men

    By Rod McGuirk, The Associated Press | Associated Press – Tue, Feb 21, 2012

    CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Julia Gillard, an opponent of same sex-marriage, will host a meal for two lesbian couples and a pair of gay men at her official residence on Tuesday after an Australian activist group won a charity auction.

    The couples will use the dinner in the national capital of Canberra to lobby the prime minister to allow gay marriage.

    The 12-year-old son of one of the women, Matthew Miller, will present Gillard with flowers and two letters explaining why he and his brother Dylan, aged 9, would like their biological mother Sandy Miller, 40, to marry the other woman whom they call their mother, Louise Bucke, 36. But the Sydney-based boys won't stay for dinner.

    "Since they're not allowed to get married, they're basically being called not normal and we're not known as a proper family," Matthew Miller told The Associated Press at a function at Parliament House before the dinner.

    Other guests are Brisbane academic Sharon Dane, 54, who married her wife Elaine Crump, 53, in Canada in a ceremony that is not recognized in Australia.

    Gay couple Steve Russell, 51, and John Dini, 29, decided against marrying overseas because it would carry no weight in Australia. While they could have a civil union recognized under state law in their hometown of Melbourne, they don't regard that as equivalent to marriage.

    The activist group GetUp! paid 31,000 Australian dollars ($33,270) for the dinner when they won a bidding war against a Christian lobby group at the Press Gallery of Australia annual charity ball in June last year.

    Gillard's Labor Party in December lifted its long-standing opposition to gay marriage, and three separate bills have been introduced to Parliament that would change the law which states that only a man and woman can marry.

    But Gillard remains opposed to gay marriage, and it is unclear whether any bill would attract sufficient support to enable same-sex couples to marry. No date has been set for a vote in Parliament on gay marriage.

    Polls show that most Australians support gay marriage, but the conservative opposition coalition and many government lawmakers remain opposed.

     

    8 comments

    • Sikovitt
      Sikovitt  •  3 mths ago
      So what's he serving for dinner, clams and weiners?
    • Mike
      Mike  •  Shreveport, Louisiana  •  3 mths ago
      No pictures of the lesbians?
    • vitiok
      vitiok  •  3 mths ago
      why do homos always bring kids into the whole thing
      • Koen
        Koen 3 mths ago
        Yeah....they're a lot like priests & ministers,, aren't they? Inbred ret@rd.....
    • Gary
      Gary  •  Charlotte, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      Vote NO. Forbidden in most religions.
      • Koen
        Koen 3 mths ago
        F*** your religion......BTW: shouldn't you be molesting kids at this time of day, like all good christians?
    • MR. M
      MR. M  •  Melbourne, Australia  •  3 mths ago
      "Since they're not allowed to get married, they're basically being called not normal and we're not known as a proper family," --- the kid hit the nail on the head with that statement.. if they would just understand their own words... it is not normal nor is it a proper family.
    • США
      США  •  3 mths ago
      Perhaps little Julia is looking for one of those kinkie Rasputin nights and have fun. Way to go Julia.
    • UncommonSense
      UncommonSense  •  3 mths ago
      Sorry, but gay marriage is an impossibility because it is not self-evident in the Natural Law. Homosexual is an aberrant behaviour in the order of the Natural Law.
    • SisyphusSyzygy
      SisyphusSyzygy  •  Kennewick, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      I hope they keep their eye on the silverware. A lot of homos are thieves.
      • Koen
        Koen 3 mths ago
        A lot of Yanks are obese, stupid, ignorant, uneducated & trailer dwellers.....
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