The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mark Kenny crowed. Australia’s “self-appointed conduits to the metaphysical” -– its Christian clergy — have been overthrown.
In the same-sex marriage plebiscite, our great Aussie churched and unchurched laity rebelled against the men of God and the “nation feels demonstrably better about itself.”
Australians now claim, so the plebiscite indicates, that whatever churchmen might say about gender, sex and marriage, that has nothing to do with us.
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