Fri Jul 02, 2010

d) Family, relationships and marriage

For Julia Gillard the personal is all too political

A version of this article was published in the Age on 2.7.10.

What reason could Julia Gillard possibly have for personally opposing same-sex marriages?

As Labor leader she can claim to be up-holding her Party’s policy against marriage equality, even though the Labor Party in her home state of Victoria has voted overwhelmingly to end that policy.

But as a “personal” stance, Gillard’s opposition to gay people marrying is inexplicable.

She is an atheist, so it can’t be because she believes God ordained marriage as a holy sacrament and condemns homosexuality as a sin.

She has no children, so it can’t be because she believes there’s an obligatory link between procreation and the right to marry.

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