Please help get science and reason in gossip mags. #equality #StopAVN
The ACL (Australian Christian Lobby) has recently started a campaign to get their followers and supporters to get Margaret Court nominated and voted in as a National Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia. Women’s Day, one of the most popular gossip mags here in Australia, has a website with a short-list of 100 nominees where you can vote.
In an attempt to counter this, we’d like to try to get as many people as possible to vote instead for Professor Ian Frazer (#32 in the list), the inventor of the Gardasil vaccine. Reasons why you should support him are given below the jump. Read more…
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So much for “tradition”. #equality.
As of the 1st of February, the laws that restrict Australians from getting married overseas will be revoked. These laws, introduced by lil johnny howard in 2004, not only made changes to the definition of marriage, specifically adding lines that would discriminate against homosexual, transgender, and nongendered people, but it also would not allow Certificate For Intent to be issues to GLBT Australians who were overseas.
The CFI is a sheet of paper that certifies that the person does not already have a legally recognised partner and is free to marry. Since 2004, thanks to the changes added by phil ruddock and lil jonny howard, LGBT people cannot receive these. Without these, they cannot marry. Well, could not. They will be able to once again after February 1st. Read more…