Aspinall: Church support for gay school formals

April 15, 2008

THE head of the Anglican Church in Australia has backed gay and lesbian students taking same-sex partners to school formals.

Anglican Archbishop Phillip Aspinall yesterday said he had no "personal objection to a school deciding to allow boys to take friends who are boys, or girls to take friends who are girls to school formals".

His comments came after it was revealed that a prestigious Brisbane school had insisted students take a member of the opposite sex to their school formal. the rest