HOBART, Tasmania, Australia -- Australian state Tasmania has hit a stumbling block in the process to legalize gay marriage.
According to president of the Legislative Council Sue Smith, she has said it will have a tough time going through Tasmania?s Upper House.
On Saturday (4 August), Premier Lara Giddings told the State Labor Party conference she would move to legalize gay marriage by the end of 2012.
She said: ?The time has come for that discrimination, that last piece of discrimination, to be removed.?
Tasmania could become the first Australian state to legalize gay marriage but Premier Lara Giddings faces an uphill battle in the Upper House.
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