{"id":9498,"date":"2017-11-15T04:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2017-11-15T06:43:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T11:43:12","slug":"same-sex-marriage-closer-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/same-sex-marriage-closer-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage closer in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By KAYLA FOSTER<\/p>\n<p>Australia is on its way to legalizing same sex marriage, after a survey showed that the country is ready to take a progressive step forward.<\/p>\n<p>In a survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 62 percent of registered voters said \u201cyes\u201d to same-sex marriage, prompting Parliament to consider legalizing the weddings later this year.<\/p>\n<p>If legalized, Australia will become to 26<sup>th<\/sup> country to do so. Following after Ireland to put same-sex marriage to a popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>Needing only to change its Australian Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, the overwhelming push sparked thousands of marriage equality supporters to fill the streets in celebration of the news.<\/p>\n<p>The news came to social media with #AustraliaSaysYes as people celebrated with posts and pictures of loved ones waiting to get married.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meet Alastair &amp; Steven &#8211; their 8 year engagement could soon become a legal marriage. Here\u2019s how they reacted to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AustraliaSaysYes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AustraliaSaysYes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheDrum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheDrum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QP6uBNctKV\">pic.twitter.com\/QP6uBNctKV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC The Drum (@ABCthedrum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCthedrum\/status\/930689054366142464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations Australia \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 FINALLY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AustraliaSaysYes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AustraliaSaysYes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ali\ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@AliceGagaxo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliceGagaxo\/status\/930700158240788481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations Australia!\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udf08Everyone deserves a life filled with love, free from discrimination and injustice. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LoveIsLove?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LoveIsLove<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AustraliaSaysYes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AustraliaSaysYes<\/a> \ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc9c\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6WSEVJQS9\">pic.twitter.com\/M6WSEVJQS9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jessimae Peluso (@JessimaePeluso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessimaePeluso\/status\/930665601311363073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/15\/asia\/australia-same-sex-marriage-what-next\/index.html\"><em>CNN<\/em><\/a>.com, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says that legalization could happen by Christmas. However, there has been opposition from conservative politicians due to extensive religious protection, in hopes to stall the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Several lawmakers have submitted their drafts of the bill, but fear of discrimination and dissolving protection are making lawmakers cautious to proposals.<\/p>\n<p>If a law is passed, this will be a major step for the country, after the last prime minister, Tony Abbott, openly opposed same-sex marriage and led the campaign in against changing the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KAYLA FOSTER Australia is on its way to legalizing same sex marriage, after a survey showed that the country is ready to take a progressive step forward. In a survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 62 percent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/same-sex-marriage-closer-in-australia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[35,103],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayla-foster","tag-international","tag-social-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}