Liberal Senator Ian McDonald voiced opposition to a fellow senator wearing the rainbow flag as same-sex marriage legislation was debated in Parliament on Wednesday, November 29.Proceedings were held up for about ten minutes when McDonald raised a point of order, saying “There is a senator in this chamber who is clearly breaching the rule about wearing insignia supporting a cause here and I’d ask you to use the same rigour in other points of order on all senators in this chamber and not allow one senator to think he or she is better than anyone else, who has special rules for him or her because of some inflated view of their own importance.”Senator Derryn Hinch, who was wearing a rainbow scarf, said he believed the comments were directed at him and drew a comparison to the occasion when One Nation’s Pauline Hanson arrived at Parliament wearing a burka.Hinch was not alone in wearing clothing bearing the rainbow flag. Independent Alex Greenwich quipped that Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, by the same logic posed by McDonald, “would have to remove her dress, because it’s a rainbow dress.”Later in the day, the Senate voted in support of same-sex marriage. Credit: Parliament of Australia via Storyful