Transgender rights advocate Martine Delaney has withdrawn a complaint she made about a Catholic Church produced anti same-sex marriage booklet.
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Ms Delaney said she withdrew the complaint, lodged with Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner in November, because a drawn-out legal battle would not benefit the vulnerable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people she believed were harmed by sections of the booklet.
She said mediation with the Catholic Church over the booklet, Don’t Mess with Marriage, had failed because the Church was unwilling to make changes to the document.
Ms Delaney, the federal Greens candidate for Franklin, said the booklet implied same-sex attracted people were not “whole people”.
Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks decided not to continue investigating the matter after Ms Delaney withdrew her complaint.
Archbishop of Hobart Julian Porteous acknowledged the decision but said it left a number of issues unanswered, in particular whether the Church had the ability to freely express its views on marriage.