GAY TRUTH

Something terrifying has happened during the past five years: a belief that was held by virtually all human beings for centuries has been rebranded as bigotry , something that may no longer be expressed in polite society. That belief is that marriage is something that occurs between a man and a woman, or between a man and many women: the idea that marriage is a union of opposite sexes. This was once seen as a perfectly normal point of view. Now, in the historical blink of an eye, it has been denormalised, and with such ferocity and speed that anyone still brave enough to express it runs the risk of being ejected from public life. Consider the ABC’s   Q&A   this week , and the furious response to it. The show was unusual from the get-go because it featured not one but two gay-marriage sceptics: Katy Faust, an American Christian, and me, a godless Brit. I made the argument that gay marriage now seemed to play the same role God played 200 years ago: anyone who didn’

Republican voters continue to be at odds with many party leaders and donors on the issue of marriage, a new national poll shows. Over three-quarters of GOP voters  support marriage being kept between a man and a woman, according to the poll, released last week by the Family Research Council and American Values. The release came a few days after the Nevada GOP decided to drop support for marriage from its platform, and in Illinois six of seven state party committee members  were replaced  after they pushed back against a former chairman's support for same-sex "marriage." A number of billionaire donors to the Republican Party are also supporting candidates who back same-sex "marriage," and  making other moves  to push the party to support changing the definition of marriage. According to American Values president Gary Bauer , the GOP should prioritize its voters' support for marriage, not the preference of party leaders and donors. "That b