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Even if you produced an opinion poll tomorrow that showed me 80 percent of the Australian com The world's largest same-sex commitment ceremony was held munity disagreed with me, I Feb. 15 at Melbourne’s Midsumma Gay and Lesbian Festival would still hold that view.” Last August, Howard assert A U S TR A L IA ed, “Marriage, as we understand it in our society, hree out of four voters between 18 and 35 is about children: having children, raising them, years old in the Australian state of West providing for the survival of the species.” ern Australia, where Perth is located, support equal recognition of same-sex relationships, a N EW Z E A LA N D poll has found. civil union bill will be introduced in Par But the Westpoll survey saw support plummet liament shortly, the New Zealand Press to 43 percent among people 36 and older, The Ass(x:iation reported Feb. 8. It would grant cou West Australian newspaper reported. According ples most of the rights of matrimony. to pollster Keith Patterson, older voters probably To build momentum for the bill, six gay cou have had less exposure to queers. ples got hitched in a commitment ceremony “Gay people in older age groups are more like before 10,000 spectators at Auckland’s Big Gay ly to have repressed their sexuality than gays in Out festival Feb. 7 in Coyle Park. the under-35 age group,” he said. “Older people The measure has the backing of Prime Min are therefore less likely to ister Helen Clark. “I think a knowingly have friends who majority [vote] is there for are gay and would he view it,” she told festivalgoers. ing the great gay revolution at somewhat more of a dis C A M B O D IA tance than would their amhodia’s King Noro- younger counterparts.” ✓ dom Sihanouk said The poll also found Feh. 20 that same-sex cou that political conserva ples should he allowed to get tives and people who live married. Writing on his in “the hush” are less Web site after watching Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk gay-supportive than liber news reports from San Fran supports same-sex marriage als and city dwellers. cisco, the monarch said, “1 think (the Cambodian government] should allow marriage between man and man or he Legislative Assembly of Australia’s Capi between woman and woman.” tal Territory voted 11 -6 to approve adoption by same-sex couples Feh. 10. The state of Western CANADA Australia, where Perth is located, and the island anada’s Supreme Court decided Feb. 20 to state of Tasmania also allow gay couples to adopt. postpone its hearings on same-sex marriage Prime Minister John Howard denounced the until October. trend Feh. 14. Same-sex marriage was legalized by provin "I don’t support gay adoptions at all,” he said. cial court orders in Ontario and British Colum “1 respect people’s choices about their own bia last summer, and weddings began taking lifestyles— that’s their right, and I don’t seek to place immediately. Thousands have occurred. discriminate against them— hut I have a view The federal government said it agreed with the that gay adoption goes against what the com rulings by the provinces’ highest courts and would munity regards as the traditional family forma intnxluce legislation to open up marriage nation tion, and that is a mother and a father. wide. But the feds also sent three procedural ques “ I think (gay adoption] sends the wrong sig tions to the Canadian Supreme Court. 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