Advocates and activists from the LGBTI community have largely welcomed the recommendations of a Senate committee looking at the Federal Government’s proposed national anti-discrimination laws, with the committee suggesting religious exemptions be tightened for service providers, protections be strengthened for transgender people and that intersex people receive specific inclusion under any new legislation.

Sydney MP Alex Greenwich will later today introduce a motion in NSW Parliament that “condemns” the Australian Christian Lobby’s attacks on the gay community which he hopes will lead to more politicians distancing themselves from the right-wing, anti-gay, fundamentalist Christian group.

ADELAIDE: The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has written to their supporters urging them to ask South Australian state MPs to reject the push for same-sex marriage.

Controversial comments by some Christian leaders over the past week suggesting smoking was healthier than the “gay lifestyle” have now been linked back to discredited research funded by a fundamentalist group in the US as well as other papers which have since been retracted or disowned by their authors.

With sadly no shortage of material to choose from over the past few days and weeks, let alone the last 12 months, organisers of this year’s GLORIA Awards have called upon the public to nominate the most outrageous, ridiculous or ignorant comments that they have read, seen or heard about GLBTI people and their families ahead of a ceremony next month.

Though Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) chief Jim Wallace may not have found too much support for his controversial claim that smoking was healthier than the “gay lifestyle” it seems he has one reliable ally in Dr Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney.

The chairperson of Beyondblue and former Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, said he is not surprised that the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has declined his offer to replace the Prime Minister at the ACL National Conference.

Despite criticism from GPs, mental health professionals, politicians as well as over social media and by members of the LGBTI community, an unrepentant Jim Wallace has continued to defend comments suggesting smoking was healthier than the “gay lifestyle”.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has sensationally withdrawn from addressing the national conference of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) early next month after the head of the fringe religious group yesterday claimed smoking cigarettes was healthier than same-sex relationships.

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) are claiming Labor's defeat in the Northern Territory election is due to the party's support for marriage equality.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has shocked large sections of the LGBTI community after agreeing to deliver the keynote speech at the Australian Christian Lobby’s (ACL) national conference in Canberra later this year.

A new video campaign by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) showing how same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy has been labelled “simply not Christian” by marriage equality advocates.

Same-sex marriage advocate Dr Kerryn Phelps and Australian Christian Lobby’s (ACL) Jim Wallace went head to head in a debate held by Channel 7’s Sunrise program as part of the ‘I Do’ campaign by Marie Claire and GetUp!

Two men have been declared parents of a two-year old, surrogate born child after a NSW court ruled it was in the child’s best interests.

Nominations are now open for the third annual Gay & Lesbian Outrageous, Ridiculous and Ignorant Comment Awards (or GLORIAs), with statements by the likes of Bob Katter, Peter Madden and Margaret Court expected to feature heavily at the ceremony held to highlight the silliest and most shocking statements made about the GLBTI community in the past year.