Australia Overturns Law Allowing Gay Marriage.

                                                             Same Sex Couples.
Australia's highest court has overturned a landmark law which had begun allowing the country's first gay marriages. The federal government challenged the validity of the Australian Capital Territory's law that had allowed gay marriages in the nation's capital and its surrounding area from last Saturday.
It means at least 27 weddings have been deemed invalid. For Ivan Hinton, who married his partner Chris Teoh on Saturday, the decision was heartbreaking. The Marriage Act does not now provide for the formation or recognition of marriage between same sex couples. 'The Marriage Act provides that a marriage can be solemnised in Australia only between a man and a woman,' the court said in a statement issued alongside its ruling. 'That Act is a comprehensive and exhaustive statement of the law of marriage.'
Daily Mail.