Two years on, where has same-sex marriage taken Australia?
by Kurt Mahlburg, MercatorNet:
A couple years back during that postal plebiscite, 62 percent of Australians voted to legalise same-sex marriage.
During the debate, many warned that if marriage were redefined, a host of injustices would follow. People of faith could lose their jobs, gender-fluid teaching might take over schools, and the freedom to hold a dissenting view would disappear.
Those in favour of same-sex marriage dismissed this as fear-mongering. They insisted that the plebiscite was only about the freedom of loving couples to marry. It was a false ‘slippery slope’ argument, they said, to suggest that other negative consequences could follow.
“Marriage Equality will take nothing from anyone,” declared Tiernan Brady, executive director of the Equality Campaign. Jane Caro loudly proclaimed that a “yes vote won’t affect religious freedom”.
Politicians advocating the “Yes” position echoed these talking points. Federal MP Warren Entsch said, “This bill will take from no-one; it simply makes our nation a kinder and a fairer place.”
Then Attorney-General George Brandis accused “No” campaigners of “trying to turn a debate about… whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry into a broader debate about religious freedom, because that’s not what this is about”.
But there were others on the “Yes” side who were a little more upfront with their motives.
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