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Australia: Labor leader Bill Shorten’s sudden antipathy to the marriage plebiscite can only be seen as an early admission that he had no hope of winning government and had decided to drag the Labor Party into a politically correct dead-end. The plebiscite, after all, is wildly popular — polls show 70 per cent of Australians want to have their say on whether to fundamentally change marriage. The popularity of the plebiscite transcends party allegiances. It’s the one issue about which most Australians agree. And yet, on the eve of the election, Shorten committed his party to kill it off. Go figure. He claims the plebiscite will “give the green light to homophobia and ugly hateful attitudes”. This is a profoundly illiberal view. And an insult to the good humour and decency of Australians. Shorten misunderstands democracy if he thinks its aim is to avoid robust disagreement. After all, what have we been doing the past eight weeks? He claims Australian is rived by “systemic raci

Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Australia: The ABC News presented both side to the Homosexual debate unfortunately the pro- homosexual marriage position presented by  David Van Mill ( Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia ) presents a faulty and false argument.  Do we really need a plebiscite on same-sex marriage? The people who think so do at least get one thing right: marriage is a political matter . Response: Marriage is not a political matter - the only interest Government has in marriage is for the propagation of children, healthy and educated to become tax payers and workers for the future. This is their interest alone with marriage.  This debate is not about whether or not same-sex marriages are compatible with any moral or religious beliefs. It is about how we should decide their legality: via Parliament or a plebiscite. Response:  Wrong marriage is all about moral and re