Comments on: ‘The fight for SSM had built up over a decade’: how the ground was laid for the Senate vote

Comments on: ‘The fight for SSM had built up over a decade’: how the ground was laid for the Senate vote /news/national-news/fight-ssm-built-decade-how-ground-laid-senate-vote/164357 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 04:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Dave /news/national-news/fight-ssm-built-decade-how-ground-laid-senate-vote/164357#comment-600110 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 04:27:57 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=164357#comment-600110 Good comments, a big well done to Rodney Croome for his efforts in this long campaign. I had hoped the High Court would put a stop to the survey (and thus most of the No campaign) but when the High Court let it go on I’m also glad so many people could grit their teeth and push on regardless.

My two cents are that we should have fought just a little dirtier. When that Tasmanian party entertainer had her contract discontinued for being in the No campaign, we should have put the full blame on the archbishops who started threatening people’s employment the previous week (). When they started up about religious freedom we should have responded with the recent Royal Commission as evidence of where religious freedom inevitably ends. We should still be talking about Margaret Court’s insane claims about the consequences of a Yes vote. We should still be comparing John Howard’s being on the wrong side of history on this issue with his (since apologised for) calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist in the 1980’s.

]]>