When Premier Lara Giddings announced gay marriage for Tasmanians, a huge Christian Lobby reaction was tipped – and never came. Henry Pill on the gap between the lobby’s rhetoric and real power.
In the US, a country where God is big business and big business is God, where you buy your chicken sandwiches suddenly says a lot about your politics. Dan Cathy, the CEO of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain known for wearing its conservative Christianity as a badge of honour, has sparked the latest manifestation of American political polarisation by speaking against gay marriage: