Australia: One MP spoke out against homosexual marriage
Some would suggest that opposition to same-sex marriage revolved around morality. But I’ve got to say that, for many people around this country who voted no, that wasn’t the issue. The issue for them was freedom. The issue for me was about freedom and the protection of freedoms in this country if we have a change to the law such as this. It’s not about morality for me or for most other people. I’ve never pretended to be a paragon of virtue. I’m a Christian, I’ve fallen short of the mark, like so many other Christians . In my past, I lived, unmarried, with a girl for many years. So I’m not going to get up on my high horse and moralise to other people. I’ve been to wild bucks parties; I’ve been out on nights with uni mates, to places where good Christians shouldn’t go—I’ve done all of that. So I’m not going to get up and lecture other people. I haven’t lived a saintly life. The saint I come closest to is Augustine, who had a great prayer: ‘O Lord, grant me chastity—but not yet.’ So