Turnbull said that if people “don’t agree” with anti same-sex marriage campaign material or the postal survey they should nevertheless participate. The prime minister warned that arguing it was illegitimate to “debate equality”, as the broadcaster Em Rusciano suggested, would undermine the case for same-sex marriage. “The vast majority of people who do not agree with same-sex marriage ... they are not homophobic, they don’t denigrate gay people. He reiterated that he and his wife, Lucy, will be voting yes in the postal survey, adding that same-sex marriage did not threaten his marriage. In recent days the Liberal party has been engaged in infighting over whether religious freedoms would be sufficiently protected if same-sex marriage were legalised.

Source: The Guardian August 22, 2017 01:53 UTC