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Date Posted: 20:05:11 06/06/06 Tue
Author: Cars
Subject: About Homosexuals and Marriage

Read this, but i'll post a little of it below so you know what it's about = http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=88399

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The ACT government has condemned the Commonwealth's decision to overturn territory laws allowing gay civil unions, vowing to take its fight to the governor-general.

Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock emerged from a cabinet meeting on Tuesday with a directive to the governor-general to use commonwealth powers to scrap the territory laws before they could be used.

The ACT parliament voted just three weeks ago to allow gay couples to enter into a civil union, with almost the same status as marriage.

Prime Minister John Howard says he scuttled the ACT's homosexual unions law because it challenged a major characteristic of Australian society.

"The bill is plainly an attempt to mimic marriage under the misleading title of civil unions," Mr Howard told ABC radio.

"We are not anti-homosexual people or gay and lesbian people, it is not a question of discriminating against them, it is a question of preserving as an institution in our society marriage as having a special character."

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