From Australia-For many, the answers to these questions were rapidly flipped and fried on Tuesday when the postal survey results were announced and the entire country was briefly bathed in a carnival of colour; an antipodean Munchkin land.
It would be entirely wrong to see Australia's decisive support for marriage equality as a defeat for Christianity. After all, Liberal senator Dean Smith, whose bill legalising same-sex unions is about to be made into law, is a Christian. Labor senator Penny Wong, too, is a woman of faith who has worshipped at Uniting churches.
Wednesday was, she said, a "day of grace".
It was, though, a defeat for a certain brand of public, conservative Christianity, one that has focused on sexuality, morality and traditional views of men and women.
And a triumph for the grassroots, those in the pews who – as polls repeatedly showed – quietly tolerated but did not share the views of their church leaders, and for those who continually asked why the unelected Australian Christian Lobby is viewed as the voice of Christianity in this country when its membership is so small (and, as researcher Stephanie Judd found, is dominated by Baptists and Pentecostals).
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https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/samesex-marriage-result-was-a-defeat-for-only-one-type-of-christianity--and-a-triumph-for-the-grassroots-sitting-in-church-pews-20171117-gznf7w.html
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