Former Australian Labor Party Leader: Get Some Guts on Gay Marriage

Former Governor-General and Labor Party leader Bill Hayden has told the party to get some guts and introduce same-sex marriage. In an opinion piece written for www.thepunch.com.au, Hayden declared his support for same-sex marriage and called for the introduction of federal anti-discrimination laws. “The times are nowhere near as tolerant of and respectful towards [gay and lesbian people] as would be the case if the community accepted them as fully equal,” Hayden wrote. “We allow them a sort of provisional, limited citizenship; freedom on a short leash, as it were. “Yes, homosexual love is now tolerated by the law, but not marriage.”  Speaking to Sydney Star Observer, Hayden said what the Labor Party needed now was “some G-U-T-S”. Full Story from SSO: http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2009/10/16/hayden-speaks-out-in-support-of-gay-marriage/17235

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