{"id":23305,"date":"2013-12-13T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23305"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:01:18","slug":"australian-territorys-gay-marriage-law-struck-down-by-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/australian-territorys-gay-marriage-law-struck-down-by-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian territory&#8217;s gay marriage law struck down by High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Capital Territory attempted to make gay marriage legal within its borders despite federal law prohibiting same-sex marriages being recognized. The Australian High Court decided yesterday that the territory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-25344219\" target=\"_blank\">cannot override federal law<\/a> on this issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ACT legislation had allowed gay couples to marry inside the ACT, which includes the Australian capital, Canberra &mdash; regardless of which state they live in.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law, however, specified in 2004 that marriage was between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Civil unions are allowed in some states in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court in Canberra ruled unanimously against the ACT legislation on Thursday, saying that it could not stand alongside national-level laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether same sex marriage should be provided for by law is a matter for the federal parliament,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Marriage Act does not now provide for the formation or recognition of marriage between same-sex couples. The Marriage Act provides that a marriage can be solemnised in Australia only between a man and a woman,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General George Brandis had previously warned that the local law would face a legal challenge, because it was inconsistent with the country&#8217;s Marriage Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Capital Territory attempted to make gay marriage legal within its borders despite federal law prohibiting same-sex marriages being recognized. The Australian High Court decided yesterday that the territory cannot override federal law on this issue: The ACT legislation had allowed gay couples to marry inside the ACT, which includes the Australian capital, Canberra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,9,10],"tags":[198,196,190,752],"class_list":["post-23305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-law","category-liberty","tag-equalrights","tag-lgbt","tag-samesexmarriage","tag-supremecourt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-63T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23306,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305\/revisions\/23306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}