After homosexual marriage - who will still be angry or aggressive?
It's time not just to focus on who will win the marriage war, but how we are going to live with the peace. For good or ill, the legislation of same-sex marriage in Australia became inevitable once Labor made it party policy. Irrespective of what happens with the postal plebiscite, Labor will achieve government at some stage. There will be no peace until same-sex marriage is enacted in a way that can't be undone. It will be on the day after the change — or rather, in the decades after — that Australia will face an important test of its maturity as a civil and civilised society. If overseas experience is any guide, even if a large a majority would be happy with marriage as redefined, a significant minority will remain recalcitrantly unconvinced. They will be not just individuals but also institutions such as, for example, the Catholic Church and all of the Australian Christian Churches (500,000 people who come under Pentecostals) independent charismatic and pentecostals,...