澳洲参政部长Penny Wong: 没有必要恐惧同性婚姻！

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澳洲参政部长Penny Wong: 没有必要恐惧同性婚姻！
Nothing to fear over gay marriage: Wong

Penny Wong 一家子

                               
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FINANCE Minister Penny Wong has told gay rights groups and Labor party members that marriage equality is a "bedrock principle" and its opponents have nothing to fear.
澳洲财政部长Penny Wong 日前告诉同志愿意组织和工党：婚姻平等是根本，反对者无需恐惧。

Senator Wong, who helped drive a hard-fought change to the ALP's platform on gay marriage, likened the campaign for marriage reform to the fight for racial equality.
"Equality is a bedrock principle," she said in her keynote address to the annual Rainbow Labor Network conference on Saturday.
"A principle that we could never today contemplate breaching in respect of race, or age, or class or other attribute - but a principle denied to some in the Australian community solely on the basis of their sexuality."
今天我们可以在种族，年龄，社会阶级，和其他方面实现平等，但是我们却在性取向上歧视一些澳洲人。

Concerns that same-sex marriage would change the nature of heterosexual marriage were groundless, she told the conference.
"I say to those who oppose marriage equality: there is nothing to fear.
说同性婚姻会改变异性恋婚姻的毫无根据的。

"Marriages between men and women are in no way devalued, nor made less secure by this change."
一个男人和一个女人之间的婚姻是不会因为承认同性婚姻而受到贬低或者变得不安全。

Australian Marriage Equality campaigner Alex Greenwich told AAP the address was "inspiring".
"Senator Wong gave a very inspiring speech, and I think if she were to deliver a speech like that to the Senate, that she would win over people on all sides of politics," he said.
The South Australian senator described letters penned by church leaders, to be read out during Sunday services, as a disappointing development.
"We're a democracy and obviously people have a right to advocate their view," she told reporters at the Sydney event.
"Obviously not all Australians of faith share the view that we should continue discrimination when it comes to marriage.
"No one is advocating that religious organisations, churches, should be required to solemnise relationships that don't accord with their teaching."
没有人强迫教会一定要违背他们的信仰去承认同性婚姻。

Senator Wong and her partner Sophie Allouache became parents for the first time in late 2011.
Penny Wong 和她的女朋友 Sophie 于2011年正式同居关系。

She brushed away a suggestion she might get married if same-sex marriage were legalised, calling it "a very personal question".

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