Cath News report: NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has dismissed allegations she is pushing the same-sex adoption bill to win over the Greens in time for next year's state election.
NSW upper house Liberal MP David Clarke told a Council of Churches meeting yesterday that Labor would need Green preferences when voters head to the polls in March next year, according to an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
This had made children the "pawns in a bigger power game", he said, adding that a committee set up to investigate same-sex adoption in 2009 was evenly split on the issue.
"Has Kristina Keneally done a deal with the Greens?" he said. "The Green party has a great deal to do with driving this agenda."
A spokesman for Ms Keneally, who has given her in-principle support for the bill, told AAP yetserday that such claims were "ridiculous".
"Kristina will be speaking on the bill, and talking about her decision to support it in the context of her Christian faith," he said.
"Specifically (she) will outline why, as a Christian, she can support this bill in good conscience."
Greens MP John Kaye also dismissed the allegations as "fantasies", and that allegations of a Greens-Labor deal "are nonsense".
The bill is to be debated in the lower house on Thursday.
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