Posted on 12/12/2017 5:15:53 PM PST by marshmallow
SYDNEY, Australia, December 11, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Christians in Australia who uphold the sanctity of one-man, one-woman marriage are feeling threatened after the country legalized same-sex “marriage” last week.
After a volunteer mail-in survey, lawmakers in both houses of Parliament passed a law legalizing homosexual “marriage” last week. But as Pastor Mark Powell put it in The Spectator Australia, “Let it be known that on the December 7, 2017 – the day in Australian Parliamentary history when "love won" – the hate campaign truly began.”
Angry, intolerant
Powell was referring to a “deluge” of hate mail and social media posts from homosexual activists directed at traditional marriage supporters, all under the hashtag “Love Wins.”
One of the leading supporters of man/woman marriage, Lyle Shelton, received what Powell calls a “Twitter storm attack.” The posts are not publishable here, but suffice it to say cursing and disease contracted in one of the most disgusting ways is the repeated wish upon Shelton and followers of Christ’s teachings.
Only a week before, the same people assured the concerned populace that they posed no threat but were only interested in live-and-let-live tolerance of same-sex “marriage.”
As one placard put it, “No More Mr. Nice Gay.”
Powell put the concern of traditionalists in perspective by turning the tables. “Just imagine the backlash if people who wanted to retain the historic definition of marriage responded in this way?”
Former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson summarized, “Many activists, having used their right to freedom of expression to advance their cause, now want to trample on the rights of those who do not agree with them.”
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Remember Lot.
They’re right to - given all the oppression that’s occurred here in the US and the UK and Canada after it was enacted. Of course this was just about luvvv - nobody was going to go after the religious with it.
Sad state of affairs.
They have no constitutional rights in Australia. Parliamentary govt can do anything.
They can’t just be happy that they got what they wanted.
This just goes back to what I’ve always observed - the more the homoLeft gets, the angrier they get.
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