John Howard decided against same sex marriages three years ago.
John Howard decided against same sex marriages three years ago.
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SYDNEY - Hundreds of people marched on Sydney's Town Hall yesterday calling for the Federal Government to legalise same-sex marriages.
Greens senator Kerry Nettle said the rally, which began at Taylor Square in Sydney's east, marked three years since the Howard Government decided against legalising gay marriages.
Acolourful, noisy crowd marched down Oxford St after Senator Nettle condemned the Federal Government's proposal to ban gay couples from adopting children from overseas.
"We saw the ban on same-sex marriage happen just before the federal election, and three years later we hear the Prime Minister talking about trying to impose a ban on same-sex adoptions from overseas, just before a federal election," Senator Nettle told the rally.
"It's a clear pattern of the Prime Minister trying to garner votes from the conservative religious fundamentalists and in doing so seeking to scapegoat a particular section within out community."
