14 November

So - what does 'religious freedoms' mean? We're going to hear that phrase a lot in the coming weeks. The No campaign thinks it means if a gay couple walks into your bakery and orders a wedding cake, you can refuse them service, because gay marriage is not something you agree with. In other words that 'discrimination' (settle Kato) should be allowable under law, if you have religious grounds for it. That's not what it means. No matter what religion you belong to, you follow the laws of the land. A point these same No campaigners are very quick to make when other religions want freedoms that place them outside the law. At root ultra-conservatives never believed the separation of Church and State happened.