07:46Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm has been grilled on Sky News about his proposed marriage equality bill, which would allow florists and bakers and others to refuse to provide goods and services to gay weddings. The other bills only allow ministers of religion to refuse to conduct gay weddings. Leyonhjelm said he was in favour of discrimination law where it prevented a publican from refusing to serve a beer to an Aboriginal person. Asked what the difference was, Leyonhjelm said:We generally distinguish between discrimination on the basis of who you want to marry, which is a sort of lower level. The difference was between “material discrimination and nice not to do discrimination”.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2016 22:11 UTC