WA Greens table same-sex marriage bill

THE West Australian Greens have tabled in parliament a state-based legislative solution for same-sex couples who want to marry.

Greens WA marriage equality spokesperson Lynn MacLaren on Thursday presented the Marriage Equality Bill 2012, which she says gives same-sex couples the same recognition and arrangements granted to heterosexual marriages.

It provides for the authorisation of celebrants and the registration of same-sex marriages via an amendment to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998.

It also provides for the dissolution and annulment of the unions, and for related financial matters via amendments to the Family Court Act 1997.

Ms MacLaren said the Greens had received legal advice saying that state-based marriage laws were not only lawful, but would withstand a federal challenge.

"The bipartisan senate inquiry on marriage equality recommended in June this year that all political parties allow a conscience vote in relation to the issue of marriage equality for all couples in Australia," she said.

"It is high time that Australia joined other civilised states and nations in rejecting prejudice and embracing marriage equality."

Efforts at the federal level failed because Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard refused to get out of the way of a reform that the majority of Australians supported, she said.

"Some day soon I hope we will look back on this same-sex marriage debate and wonder what all the fuss was about, and wonder how such inequitable and prejudicial laws could prevent someone from marrying the person they love and how we could have allowed them to persist for so long," Ms MacLaren said.

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