In a very interesting turn in Australia's never ending marriage equality debate, the forces of conservatism (if not perhaps the majority of Christian leadership) are arguing that it is better for loving couples to live together outside of marriage than within the bounds of this most conservative of institutions.
The conservative voices are hemmed in a bit by the politics of the situation: they don't want to be seen to be anti same sex relationships, because that's not it at all (they argue). This is simply a question of whether this oldest of institutions should be expanded to allow couples of the same sex to marry. To them, the answer to this question is a resounding no. The rest of Australia seems to hold a different opinion, however.
Because, for political reasons, those against marriage equality are running this argument, it seems to me, as a punter, as an Autralian who made up my mind about this subject many many years ago, that they have kicked a huge own goal. They are willing to let the moral ground underlying the questions "should unmarried people live together?" and even "should unmarried people engage in sex?" shift even further away from their moral position supposedly ordained by GOD.
We all know these questions are meaningless in the contemporary world, except to the extremely conservative religious factions of most major religions, and their diminishing allies in secular society. But the unintended consequences of the marriage equality debate is making these outdated social positions ever more ridiculous.
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