{"id":12522,"date":"2012-09-20T00:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=12522"},"modified":"2012-09-20T00:36:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:36:21","slug":"gays-divided-on-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/09\/20\/gays-divided-on-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays divided on Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Openly gay Liberal Senator Dean Smith spoke against\u00a0 the bill (same-sex marriage motion in Australian Parliament<\/a> which was defeated), saying opinion in\u00a0 the gay community was divided on the issue.<\/p>\n

“By not agreeing to same sex\u00a0 marriage, I’m not choosing to endorse\u00a0 discrimination against my fellow gay and\u00a0 lesbian Australians, or to be\u00a0 disrespectful to their domestic relationships…\u00a0 instead for me, it’s an\u00a0 honest acknowledgement of the special and unique\u00a0 characteristics of the\u00a0 union described as marriage,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, Gay advocate says don’t call it marriage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t call it marriage \u2013 interesting comment from Northern Territory gay community,<\/p>\n

Darwin restaurateur John Spellman is one of the pioneers of the gay movement in the NT. During the 80s he made a name by running the popular gay nightspots known as Fannies and Dicks.<\/p>\n

Mr Spellman is an advocate of equality for the Territory\u2019s gay community.<\/p>\n

However, he thinks a decision by the Northern Territory branch of the Labor Party to push the Federal Parliament to legalise gay marriage is wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the federal party\u2019s attitude is better. The word marriage shouldn\u2019t be used in any form of, how do we put it, cohabitation ceremony. If you want a commitment ceremony why not?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut marriage is not the right word. It\u2019s religious. It\u2019s for a man and a woman to produce children. And I think you\u2019d offend a lot of people by using the word marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cCivil union, call it gay commitment ceremony, call it what you like. It\u2019s a commitment between two couples. It\u2019s a legal thing. If they want a legal thing \u2013 legislation \u2013 some other word but not marriage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Openly gay Liberal Senator Dean Smith spoke against\u00a0 the bill (same-sex marriage motion in Australian Parliament which was defeated), saying opinion in\u00a0 the gay community was divided on the issue. “By not agreeing to same sex\u00a0 marriage, I’m not choosing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12522"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12532,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions\/12532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}