THEY say they are not against homosexuals. Nor are they bigots, or religious zealots or people hankering after a bygone era. What they are against is same-sex marriage.
In an often vitriolic debate now intensifying in Australia, some say their point of view has been ridiculed or simply disregarded.
They know, too, that they are pushing against a tide that supporters assume will have an inevitable end – an amendment to the Commonwealth Marriage Act, which now defines marriage as ”the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others”.