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Same-sex marriage officially signed into law in Australia
Same-sex marriage has been officially signed into law in Australia, a day after MPs overwhelmingly approved a historic bill. Australia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove signed off on the law on Friday - a formality required to enact the legislation. The vote on Thursday set off rarely matched celebrations in parliament, including cheers, hugs and a song. Supporters celebrated across Australia, many donning rainbow colours.
"So it is all done. It is part of the law of the land," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said after a brief ceremony on Friday.
He said the law would take effect immediately after midnight.The first marriage ceremonies will happen from 9 January, given couples must give a month's notice of their intention to wed.
MP Tim Wilson proposed to his gay partner from the floor of Parliament during the debate.
Meanwhile: Austria to allow same-sex marriage with couples able to legally marry from 2019 at latest
Austria's top court has ruled that same-sex couples can marry from 2019 at the latest, bringing the often conservative Alpine country into line with more than a dozen other European nations. Gay marriage is now recognised in more than 20 countries, of which 16 are in Europe. "The Constitutional Court nullified with a decision on December 4, 2017 the legal regulation that until now prevented such couples from marrying," a statement released on Tuesday said. It said however that the current rules would remain in place until December 31, 2018 unless Austria's parliament changes the law before then.
Previously: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
Australians Approve of Same-Sex Marriage in Non-Binding Vote
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @07:43PM (6 children)
I think we should do away with marriage as a legal construct. Heterosexual people are just as capable of entering into a thousand-page contract with each other as homosexual people are. This will also make the tax code simpler. Let the religious crazies have their ceremonies in temples built of human hands.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @07:49PM (2 children)
Why human hands? Is it against G_d's plan to build a church using robots?
Popeye's > Church's
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday December 09 2017, @08:47PM
BURN IN HELL!!!!! Church's > Popeye's
Kidding a little, but you're math is way off
(although Popeye's does have really good sides)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @12:47AM
I see I wasn't clear. I think robots are ok per Acts 7:48.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2017, @08:55PM (2 children)
Well, really, a marriage isn't really official until a child from the couple is produced. That is the seal that confirms the deed.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday December 10 2017, @12:04AM (1 child)
You might want to think about that. Are you thus advocating that those who marry are sanctioned to have children? Particularly, the ones marrying animals and plants? For that would make for interesting legal precedence when genetics gets to the point where those sorts of progeny are possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @12:10AM
monster musume