For immediate reading by all ALP members

Attention members of the Australian Labor Party. Read this. Good, now read it again. Now read the last paragraph again. Once more. Good. Did you understand all of the words? Do you understand the general sentiment?

You know what, I'll just excerpt the last paragraph here eh?

"I know that a debate is taking place in Australia on the same issue and I note that our brothers and sisters in the Australian Labor Party are torn as to what to do. I would urge them to look into their hearts. As social democrats and democratic socialists, the most basic values we share in common are a commitment to freedom, community, democracy and equality. We can only ensure that gay and lesbian citizens are truly free, truly a valued part of our communities and truly able to play a full democratic role in our societies when we say that henceforth all will be afforded equality of treatment and in the case of marriage, equality can only be achieved when all couples, opposite sex or same sex can stand their families and friends and enter a fully equal marriage."