The Australian Labor government agreed to a 2012 conscience vote to redefine the meaning of the word marriage to allow for same sex marriage. In the mean time, according to the ABC News (6 December 2011) public support is widespread, and polls show three quarters of Liberal/National voters back a conscience vote.
And, across the Pacific, without wanting to trivialize this subject in any way (I don't have a view one way or another) it seems now, according to BleedingCool the folk of Riverdale will turn out to celebrate war hero Kevin Keller's mixed-race marriage to his boyfriend Dr. Clay Walker in Life with Archie #16.
Following an injury in Iraq, Kevin meets Clay at a hospital's rehabilitation unit. While Dr. Walker helps Kevin regain his ability to walk, the two develop a friendship. Later at a chance encounter they start dating, which eventually leads to their marriage in Riverdale.
For those not familiar with the Life with Archie, this was (according to Wikipedia) a comic book published by Archie comics from 1958 to 1991. It featured Archie Andrews in various adventure stories. In 2010 it was revived as a magazine-sized comic devoted to stories that grew out of Archie Marries Veronica and Archie Marries Betty (Archie 2 loves).
So these series, which follows the lives of Riverdale High School students a few years after graduation focuses on Kevin and his life as a young adult in its January issue. The storyline sees Kevin and Clay tying the knot just as Archie himself is in the midst of separating from his wife Veronica.
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