Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s winery wedding in the Adelaide Hills is the first of four ministerial weddings this year.
Nicolette Lewis and Lana De Angelis are two of the 10,440 women who have married other women in NSW since marriage equality laws took effect.
Despite the opposition of the Church,same-sex couples will now be able to marry in a civil ceremony and adopt children.
Roman Catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples as long as they are not part of regular Church rituals or liturgies,the Vatican said.
Bouquets and garter tosses? In the bin. The “giving away” of the bride? Considered medieval at this point.
The country became the first in South Asia to legalise same-sex marriage,and only the second in the whole of Asia,after Taiwan.
It would become the first country in south-east Asia to legalise same-sex marriage and only the third place in Asia to do so,following Taiwan and Nepal.
The former judge on The Block said holding a civil ceremony in 2008 was a “bold step to cement our union publicly”.
It was when I started rejecting men shorter than me,I decided that was enough. I was disgusted with myself.
Most Australians know someone who is gay,but few of us know an Indigenous Australian – so the scare tactics are working.
A revised policy by the Sydney diocese says its school principals must be “of Christian faith and character” and be “actively involved” in a Bible-based church.