Queensland, Australia “downgrades” certain LGBT rights

Queensland Parliament

A heavy setback in Australia today as the government of Queensland has announced it will repeal certain key LGBT rights:

The Australian state of Queensland will remove gay couples’ ability to have children through surrogacy and downgrade civil partnerships to the class of ‘registered relationships’, after a debate in Parliament last night.

The Legislative Assembly in Brisbane agreed to extensively alter the provisions of the Civil Partnerships Act 2011, which came into force in February this year after control of the house swung to the right.

The system, introduced in the final months of the last state government, will be renamed and the option of an official ceremony revoked so it bears less resemblance to marriage.

Because protecting marriage is all about making sure those dirty homosexuals can’t celebrate their love or form families like normal people do.

(via Joe. My. God.)

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