I find it hard to believe anyone could support charges such as these being imposed upon people who are already suffering emotional distress. Adding financial distress, which it most certainly would for many, is an absolutely heartless and cynical move from the Libs. One has to question if the extremist Catholic faction that is so powerful in the current cabinet, led by the likes of Abbott, Robb and Abetz, see this as a perverse way to "support" marriage? God only knows, because extremist catholic thinking certainly moves in mysterious ways.

It is a most disconcerting trend in the coalition to see the way that catholic church beliefs seem to be reflected in party policy, where senior ministers consult with church advisors for direction on how they should steer public policy. This is a self admitted practice from the PM and his catholic cronies, and it needs tostop.
Can you imagine the outcry if the PM was muslim, and he was consulting his Imam before making policy decisions?  The public would be screaming bloody murder, and rightfully so, and I think we should be just as outraged that we have this catholic religious organisation exerting undue and unwarranted influence to keep our leaders from respecting the wishes of the electorate because the church does not agree with the public's moral choices. If we wanted to live in a theocracy, we could move to Iran.

So it's about time that coalition supporters started to let their party know that we want a secular government in our country.