Reforms passed with bi-partisan support and backed by ACL in 2008 mean there is no discrimination against same-sex couples under Australian law. This is not widely known and is never mentioned by the gay lobby.
It is unnecessary to turn Australians against each other in the way Mr Rudd did last Monday night.
Q&A's colosseum-like atmosphere was reminiscent of the Labor national conference in 2011 when the party changed its policy to support same-sex marriage.
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Like Matt Prater, good Labor people like Joe de Bruyn, Senator Helen Polley, Deb O'Neill and others were jeered as they valiantly tried to hold their party in the sensible centre on social policy.
There is plenty of ground for Labor to recover with Christian and other mainstream voters.
The Coalition's shock election-eve dumping of bi-partisanship on overseas aid has angered many in the Christian constituency. The Coalition underestimates the depth of feeling on this.
A good start to extricating itself from its political death roll with the Greens would be for Labor to put some distance between itself and same-sex marriage.
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