ACT to marry before challenge

It's not long, but there's a little window of opportunity for people wanting to get married in the ACT. The Abbott gov High Court challenge is set down for a hearing of the full bench in Mid December. The ACT will start marrying early Dec.

Same-sex couples will have a brief window of opportunity to begin marrying in Australia despite the Australian Government’s challenge in the High Court. 

The Australian Government had sought to expedite its challenge to the Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT) law allowing same-sex couples to marry under territory law and the court held a directions hearing today at 2.15pm. 

However the case will not get a full hearing until mid-December and the ACT law comes into effect in early December – leaving a window in which same-sex couples will be able to marry before the court decides their constitutionality. 

By December it is possible that same-sex marriage will have been legalized in the Australian states of Tasmania and New South Wales – with New South Wales to debate a bill on the issue next Thursday – something that may also weigh on the judges’ decision. - See more

The reason the Abbott gov is in such a rush to stop the ACT marrying? If you haven't heard this it's truly unbelievable, and shows that the Abbott gov doesn't have the faintest idea about same sex couples. 

Imagine, you've been in a relationship for years and years. You want so much to marry your partner and for your relationship to be recognised by the state as the same love as other couples. And then you hear the gov say this about why it wants to rush a challenge:

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Attorney-General George Brandis have called on same-sex couples to delay getting married until the High Court battle is resolved, arguing it would cause "distress" if the laws were overturned and marriages declared invalid. Read more

Fucks sake man, what a load of absolute fuckin crap. The gov has showed by it's actions and rhetoric that it doesn't give a flying fuck about the LGBT. In fact even with his own sister Abbott puts church doctrine over his relationship/acceptance of her. As it is in this case IMO; Abbott doesn't care less about us being hurt. All he cares about is the fuckin Catholic church and it's homophobic, anachronistic doctrines from the middle ages. Like a bloody mindless drone - "church says no".