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.