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What Trojan horse?

23 September 2017

9:00 AM

23 September 2017

9:00 AM

One popular metaphor used by No campaigners is that of the Trojan horse. Same-sex marriage will, the metaphor suggests, introduce all kinds of more sinister problems – medical board petitions, hate-f*#king, gender fluidity, HRC complaints, Special Persons Day and Safe Schools among others.

But these things are not lying silently sequestered inside a festive-looking wooden horse, ready to pop out on 15 November.

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