Annette – with respect you are completely wrong. Protest all you like about Climate change in the appropriate forums – but as an old gay rights activist myself this is no time to abandon our ongoing cause. Once again, some people try to hijack or confuse the argument by hiving off into other realms. This kind of thing did our cause enormous damage in the eighties when some people tried to put add ons onto our cause for decriminalisation. Not all gay people are of the left, nor are they tree huggers or vego’s or anti nuclear! We are gay and that is where our argument and our demands for equality end and stop. Our cause is just and it is relevant and it is vitally important. Chase other rainbows if you wish – but be assured most of us will still be focussed on gay rights!

Why? Not because I have stopped supporting equality, but because it won’t be a very long battle at all. If you study climate science and stats, you probably already agree with me that we will not avoid a level of extinction that will destroy most if not all, complex life on Earth in the very near term. On the way out, of course, large sections of our “civilisation” will target all minorities.

We need to focus, together with our friends of every age, gender, origin, ability and race for the envioronmental battle of our lives. The environmental protest movement already shines as a ground of equality, so lets move forward together. Simply leave the prating sycophants and haters behind as we storm the ramparts of the fossil fuel industry and its corrupted governments. We really have nothing to lose but the continuation of life on Earth.

We all know ‘Folau’s Law’ would be most likely all about serving up the LGBTIQ community on a platter for religious abuse and hate — punishhment for Australia voting for marriage equality.

The Coalition is driving the bus towards us, but we don’t expect anything better from them.

However, Labor could be the ones throwing us under that bus if they end up supporting this absolute travesty, and while that is not entirely unexpected, if it does happen, it should put all illusions the LGBTIQ community ever had about Labor behind us …

And given the controversy involved in this proposal, shouldn’t we first have about two decades of debate about the appropriateness of these changes to the law, followed by a postal survey?!