MALCOLM Turnbull has described those who claim legalising gay marriage would undermine the institution as “dripping with the worst sort of hypocrisy”, in a speech defying the Coalition’s opposition to changing the law.
Mr Turnbull, a frontbencher who cannot vote for gay marriage because of Tony Abbott’s refusal to give Liberals a conscience vote, said the “deepest pools” of this hypocrisy were all too often found “among the most sanctimonious”.
“Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment – whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.”
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