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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 ...

Claiming that Christians are responsible for the Orlando shooting is inaccurate and disingenuous. Here's a look at how Christians have historically responded to public displays of homosexuality. In response to my article, “ The Outrageous Attack on Conservative Christians After the Orlando Massacre ,” one commenter wrote,  “This vicious homo-narrative has been going on for YEARS — it’s a shame that it took this incident to make people listen.” In other words, contrary to my claims, Christians really are complicit in the Orlando massacre. Another commenter wrote,  “Calling a group of American people perverted, sick, disgusting, child molesters, deviants, evil, depraved, wicked, a mentally ill chosen behavior while accusing them that they are out to destroy the country … and then spending billions on laws that hurt and discriminate … marginalizing them to the point of suicide and creating an atmosphere for hate crimes … doing everything to punish and shame them a...