Religious freedom is being threatened by gay marriage
English: the moment of the Marriage Equality Act vote at the capital building in Albany NY June 24, 2011. In the balcony of the chambers. photographed by the Celebration Chapel of Kingston NY (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The concerted push to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia threatens to undermine the religious freedoms of our faith communities. Earlier this month, the private office of Australian Marriage Forum President David van Gend was the target of vandals who spray-painted the word ‘Bigot’ across the building’s edifice. Despite cautions from Australian Marriage Equality to ‘not jump to conclusions about the perpetrator’, it’s hard to believe that van Gend was targeted for any reason other than his opposition to same-sex marriage. Regrettably, the AMF President is not the first casualty of this war against religious freedom – nor will he be the last. Over the past four years, public opponents of same-sex marriage have been subject to a coordinated c...