Julia Gillard can be terribly modern, when it suits her. Here she is, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, a never-married atheist with a live-in lover.
She expects, quite reasonably, that her life choices will be respected by others from all walks of life – and by and large they are.
Strange then that this trailblazer for social change now turns around and lectures us about the significance and importance of traditional heterosexual marriage.
As Gillard tells it, she is against gay marriage because she has a “strong conviction that the institution of marriage has come to have a particular meaning and standing in our culture and nation and that should continue unchanged”.
Such a view puts Gillard in the same conservative camp as Tony Abbott – and out of step with the majority of Australians who, according to polls, support gay marriage.
I really could not care less if Gillard or anyone else for that matter never marries, but she has a shocking gall to deny same-sex partners the right to marry on the grounds that it would defy tradition.
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