The Rudd government should drop its unpopular, discriminatory and old-fashioned opposition to same-sex marriage when it wipes all other discrimination on the basis of sexuality from the statutes later this year, Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown said today.
 
"If Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is going with the Californian Supreme Court ruling that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, surely Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxen can back growing majority opinion in Australia that their support for the ban, while old-time quaint and Howardian, is wrong. The Greens will seek to amend the government legislation to end discrimination in marriage law", Senator Brown said.