ASHLEY HALL: Gay and lesbian groups say they expect the passing of the laws will smooth the way for more legislation giving equal rights to same sex couples.

Paul Martin is from the lobby group Queensland Association for Healthy Communities.

He told Annie Guest some of the views expressed in Parliament by the Liberal National Party were well out of step with community sentiment.

PAUL MARTIN: There were some comments around that children brought into the world through surrogacy would be viewed as pets or possessions or those types of things and I've never heard anybody in the real world consider children in that way and certainly not people who have gone through a very long journey often to get to the surrogacy position.

So I think that was unnecessary. The talk about parents not being able to take children to the toilet because of their gender was also strange as well.