In this piece, political commentator and journalist Mungo MacCallum argues that The Australian newspaper has been conducting a deceptive scare-campaign on marriage equality, and highlights how ideas of religion and marriage have been drifting apart for centuries.
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In the Weekend Australian, Dennis Shanahan indignantly denies the contention in the Melbourne Age that “concerns over gay marriage have been fomented by the Catholic Right”.
It is true, he concedes, that all those who have been frothing at the mouth over the issue, including of course Shanahan himself, merit that description – but hey, there are some right-wing Catholics who haven’t gone hysterical, and there are some Labor lefties who don’t like being upstaged by the Greens. So it really is a deeply serious debate of fundamental importance to Julia Gillard and her government.
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