Marriage Conscience
The politicians demanded a conscience vote on the bill to redefine
marriage, ironically at the same time as they voted that they would
not protect the freedom of conscience of places of faith from having
to host same-sex ‘weddings’ if their facilities are available to the
general public, or of marriage registrars and marriage celebrants
who are not part of approved mainline churches or approved
organisations to lawfully be able to refuse a request to marry a
same-sex couple by reason of the same-sex of the couple. As a
result, only 1/3’rd of marriages will be conducted by celebrants who
can exercise their freedom of conscience.
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