Queensland’s proposal to reinstate civil partnerships for straight and same-sex couples has received support from Anglicans and Baptists, while other Christians continue to oppose the move.
Of the 30 submissions to the parliamentary committee, most were in support of the return to civil partnerships which were established in the dying days of the Bligh government, but changed into registered relationships in one of the first acts of the Newman government.
The Palaszczuk government legislation would alter the name and once again allow state-sanctioned ceremonies for same-sex and straight couples.
Read it all from the Brisbane Times.
That the Anglican church in Queensland would support this is hardly a surprise. They are increasingly irrelevant as a Christian denomination.
But are the Baptists really at odds with other Christians? The last I heard, Ron Smith is not in the Baptist ministry, and he is in a small minority of baptists who support same sex “marriage”.