SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA)
Sydney Morning Herald

October 17, 2017

By Anna Krien

In Senator Penny Wong’s much celebrated speech in the Senate opposing the Coalition’s postal plebiscite, she responded with contempt to Liberal senator Mathias Cormann’s comment that the plebiscite on marriage equality could be a “unifying moment”. “But I tell you,” she said in a steely voice, “have a read of some of the things which are said about us and our families and then come back here and tell us this is a unifying moment.”

She recalled the Australian Christian Lobby’s description of children brought up in same-sex family units as “the stolen generation”. “We love our children,” Wong said passionately.

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Ah, the children. The “yes” campaign needs only two words to respond to the ACL, the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church and the other religious heavy-hitters’ concerns about the “children”.

If there is ever…