On the Punch website Dr Kerryn Phelps writes: What a week it has been for the Prime Minister of our nation, Our Lady of the Lodge, the Very Reverend Julia “Traditional Values” Gillard.
Let me get this “straight”…if you’ll pardon the expression. Our first female Prime Minister, an atheist living in a de facto relationship, claims to be a traditionalist with a conservative upbringing.
We are exhorted to go back to Bible stories to understand why marriage equality doesn’t fit with Australia’s cultural heritage because we have to see where we have come from.
This would truly have to be the most cynical attempt to recapture the political middle ground in the history of hung Parliaments. “We’re not as Right as those nasty ultra-conservatives so we’ll introduce a carbon tax even though we promised not to, and we’re not as Left as those radical Green extremists so therefore I am opposed to marriage equality.”
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