Australia: Gay have declared war on No voters - mainly Christians
We keep hearing that the rainbow crusade for marriage was only about “love is love”, but the reaction on social media last week tells you that hatred played a part too. “Eat shit, Lyle” was trending on Twitter the day Liberal Senator Dean Smith’s same-sex marriage bill passed through Parliament. Lyle is Lyle Shelton , head of the Australian Christian Lobby . Grinding him into the dust was a higher priority than celebrating love for Yes campaigners of the Fourth Estate, such as Clementine Ford and Benjamin Law, who piled onto the Twitter meme of the day. Rob Stott, of online rag Junkee, boasted that his story showcasing the worst Shelton tweets was “doing more traffic than the actual story about marriage equality passing”. That says it all. “ Australia has done it. What a day for love, for equality, for respect,” Malcolm Turnbull declared triumphantly. Well, Lyle Shelton didn’t get a lot of respect on Thursday. And by abusing the most effective spokesman for the No campaign, wha...