{"id":355572,"date":"2010-02-23T20:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T01:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordonmoyes.com\/2010\/02\/24\/relationship-register-for-gay-couples-in-nsw\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T20:17:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T01:17:39","slug":"relationship-register-for-gay-couples-in-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355572","title":{"rendered":"Relationship Register for gay couples in NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>23 February 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gay and unmarried heterosexual couples will now be able to register their relationships so that they can access and receive the same legal entitlements as married couples.<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"caps\">NSW <\/span>Government announced today that it will be introducing legislation to create the legislation modelled on other jurisdictions such as the <span class=\"caps\">ACT<\/span>, Victoria and Tasmania.  <span class=\"caps\">NSW<\/span> will not provide for civil unions<\/p>\n<p>The relationships register will help remove discrimination faced not just by unmarried heterosexual couples but also those in same-sex relationships.  The <span class=\"caps\">NSW <\/span>Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages will administer the relationship register.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible to register a relationship on the Relationships Register, couples must be in a committed, exclusive relationship, not be married or in another relationship that is registered or registrable, and be 18 years of age or older; and one person must be a resident of <span class=\"caps\">NSW<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Although supporting the removal of barriers faced by unmarried and same sex couples, Dr Gordon Moyes, <span class=\"caps\">NSW <\/span>Parliamentary Leader of Family First, said, &#8220;Our primary concern is for the welfare of the family.  Children have a right to be raised by a mother and father not just two people of the same sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Moyes continued, &#8220;The Government is sugar-coating this move by saying it will remove discrimination and injustice for same-sex couples.  But there is already adequate protection for their rights under all the laws protecting de-facto relationship whether same-sex or different partnerships. Having the <span class=\"caps\">NSW <\/span>Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages administer the relationship register is just an attempt to have a back door marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not about justice for a couple of adults.  Marriage is the only guarantee for justice for children&#8221;, Dr Moyes concluded.   <strong><span class=\"caps\">END<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 February 2010 Gay and unmarried heterosexual couples will now be able to register their relationships so that they can access and receive the same legal entitlements as married couples. The NSW Government announced today that it will be introducing legislation to create the legislation modelled on other jurisdictions such as the ACT, Victoria and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}