Australia’s Labor Party Endorses Same-Sex Marriage

However, Joe de Bruyn, a prominent Labor Party member and union official, countered: "The definition of marriage as set out in the legislation is that it is the union of one man and one woman, voluntarily entered into for life. It has always been that way since the dawn of humanity.”

Some states in Australia permit civil unions, while gay marriage is banned in the country as a whole.

Although Labor currently has a slender majority in parliament over the Liberal Party (which opposes gay marriage), it will be very hard for the government to fully pass a law allowing such unions.

Indeed, according to Australian media, enough Labor MPs oppose such a bill to preclude it from being passed into law, although a majority of the public appears to support same-sex marriage according to recent opinion polls.

A bill on the proposal will likely be brought to parliament sometime early next year.

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