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Just weeks after Australia legalized same-sex marriage, former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott attended the wedding of his sister Christine Forster to girlfriend Virginia Flitcroft.
Abbott told the media as he traveled to Sydney for the ceremony, "I’m looking forward to having a new sister-in-law.”
Sweet sentiments, but a change in tone as Abbott had opposed marriage equality all the way up to the recent "vote-by-mail" survey of the entire country on the subject.
“However deeply affectionate or long lasting it may be, the relationship between two people of the same sex cannot be a marriage because a marriage, by definition, is between a man and a woman,” said Abbott during the nationwide debate. “Let’s celebrate all strong relationships, whether they are between a man and a woman or between people of the same sex—but let’s be careful about describing every lasting sexual bond as a ’marriage’.”
Abbott refused to allow a vote in Parliament on the issue while in power, but did say the question should be put to a national referendum.
The result of the survey? Sixty-two percent of Australians said yes to equal marriage, and Parliament overwhelmingly followed suit December. The first same-sex weddings began January 9.
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