Divisions in the campaign against same-sex marriage in Australia have emerged, with the Salt Shakers Christian lobby group attacking the involvement of other faiths in the campaign.

“The involvement of speakers from other faiths [at the rally] seems to have been done to spread the message of opposition to homosexual ‘marriage’,” the Salt Shakers wrote in newsletters following the Marriage Day rally in August.

“However, the inclusion of a message from a Muslim imam, who praised marriage and the family, was problematic because Islam allows a man to have four wives.