So if they get what they want, the onus is on Australia’s religious communities to use their freedoms fairly and equally to discriminate against anyone who causes them a pang of religious conscience, be they people of other faiths, atheists, divorcees, de-facto couples or whatever. If a school sacks a teacher for being gay but leaves on staff someone else who is not in a traditional situation, that’s fucked up. And I think in those cases the government funding of those schools needs to be questioned.

So be wise and responsible, religious types. Freedoms don’t have punishments, that’s why they’re freedoms. But they certainly do have consequences.