Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi Visiting international GLBT rights campaigner and trailblazer Boris Dittrich has been quizzed on the mechanics of how gay couples could have children, by a National MP who has put forward a series of unusual questions today. “How they are going to produce the child? They need male and female for that,” Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi asked Human Rights Watch GLBT advocacy director Boris Dittrich. It came after Bakshi had earlier asked a gay Wellington couple "If you get married, who will be identified as husband, and who will be identified as wife?" Bakshi is a member of the select committee hearing submissions on the proposed marriage equality bill at Parliament. Dittrich is a former MP in the Netherlands where he was involved in making it the first country in the world to introduce marriage equality. He says it’s a non-issue now. He told the select committee Human Rights Watch, which is based in New York, endorses the bill: “We are watching New Zealand and looking forward to your upholding principles of equality and non-discrimination. And that’s how the world knows New Zealand – as a country which upholds those fundamental human rights.”
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First published: Thursday, 22nd November 2012 - 4:54pm