By Neal Broverman on Advocate.com

Danielle Green — an Australian Labor MP representing Yan Yean, near Melbourne — is hoping her fellow lawmakers come around on marriage equality, even though the nation’s female prime minister isn’t sold on the idea.

Green has a 28-year-old gay son, Blake, who came out in his early teen years.

“He said to me: ‘Mum, I don’t want you to be upset about this as it could just be a stage, but I think I might be gay.’ He was so worried about my feelings,” Green told the  Herald-Sun. “I told him it’s no one else’s business who anyone chooses to love or be intimate with.”

Green’s Labor Party will discuss changing the party’s platform this weekend to include support for same-sex marriage. Prime Minister Julia Gillard opposes marriage equality but voiced supported for a conscience vote on the matter at the Labor Party conference.

A recent poll showed that a majority of Australians support marriage rights for gays.

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