FED:Rudd's sister quits the Labor Party

AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-2011
FED:Rudd's sister quits the Labor Party

CANBERRA, Dec 13 AAP - Kevin Rudd's sister has resigned from the Labor Party because
of its support for same-sex marriage.

Loree Rudd sent a letter to her Nambour branch last week after the party voted in support
of a policy shift at the ALP national conference earlier in December.

"I couldn't work for a party that had endorsed homosexuals marrying," she told Fairfax
on Tuesday.

Ms Rudd did not resign from the party when her brother was dumped as prime minister in June 2010.

"It is a horrible thing for them to be discriminated against and that's why my brother
introduced laws so they are not discriminated against," she said.

"But to make that huge leap from their rights to breaking a commandment of Moses, to
say homosexuals' relationships is marriage, is utter nonsense."

In July, Ms Rudd threatened to quit the party if it endorsed gay marriage, sparking
outrage from the Jewish community when she accused some Labor Party members of being brainwashed
by a "global gay Gestapo".

Labor MPs will have a conscience vote if a bill to change marriage laws comes before parliament.

The opposition is opposed to any changes and will not grant its MPs a conscience vote.

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