Marriage Equality: the scurrilous backlash has started

I live in the Queensland electorate of Mt Ommaney (pdf map). Our local member is Julie Attwood. In today’s junkmail delivery was this flyer:

I sent a submission in to the recent Civil Unions bill expressing my support for that bill. I am delighted to see that my local MP’s vote on both Civil Unions and Surrogacy was enough to pull the knuckle-dragging homophobes out of the woodwork. The flyer comes from the Australian Marriage Forum, which describes itself with these words:

We are people and organisations who are concerned at how advocates are pushing for same-sex marriage without really presenting the reality of what this means for our nation. Two of the founding organisations are the Australian Christian Lobby and the Australian Family Association.It’s important to note that legislation to support same-sex marriage may have enormous consequences on our culture and we want to bring those concerns to the fore so we can be open and honest about what we really need and want when it comes to defining marriage in our nation.

One thing that I am certain of is that neither the ACL or AFA actually want to have an “open and honest” discussion about marriage, because that would mean accepting that a sizeable majority of the voting population of Australia believe same sex marriage is a good, necessary, compassionate and loving idea.

One other thing of note: the flyer mentions a .org.au website, but redirects you to a plain .org instead. I’m not certain that they’d be allowed to use a legitimate .org.au domain under current AuDA rules.