One of the plaintiffs in the landmark US marriage equality case doubts Donald Trump’s assurances that same-sex marriage is “settled law” that will not be revisited by the supreme court. Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes that he was “fine” with marriage equality “because it was already settled”, in comments in his first TV interview as US president-elect, aired on Sunday evening. In Australia, the conservative Coalition government has proposed a plebiscite, a popular vote, to decide whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage. The proposal has been blocked by opposition parties who want a vote in parliament to bring about same-sex marriage. Since the supreme court ruled that same-sex marriage was a right guaranteed by the 14th amendment, granting equality before the law, Obergefell said acceptance of same-sex marriage had grown.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 01:05 UTC