It hasn’t been a very good week for the anti-gay marriage people in this country. The results from two independent parliamentary surveys came out on Monday, both giving marriage equality thumping majority support.
“We are comprehensively losing this,” the Australian Christian Lobby wrote in an email to its followers before the deadline, foreshadowing the inevitable. “But it is this weight of numbers that a complicit press will report, and we must win it and then pray the strength of argument in our considered ones prevails.”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen desperation quite like that before, and yet I’ve been to the only gay bar in Adelaide.