".. all of a sudden a movement founded with the explicit goal of destruction of the family is now pro marriage?"

Simply amazing, isn't it? The easily-led swallow it. It sure helps that the education system is feminist controlled and radical feminist zealots have been beavering away for decades with their Marxist-inspired propaganda to maintain the push. All funded by the exasperated taxpayer whose interests and preferences run counter to the push.

The national broadcaster is a big help to the movement with $1.3 billion, again courtesy of the long-suffering taxpayer, to prosletyse for 'Progressive' politics and providing endless opportunities for the message for be spruiked and keeping Australia-bashing clowns like Phillip Adams on the payroll.

The Labor Party is hopelessly divided by factions. Plibersek is just another careerist politician riding the feminist wagon who is serving her own personal interests and is shoring up a large superannuation for life. She is likely to jump ship if she doesn't keep moving to better seats on the feminist gravy train and before there is any accounting of what she has(n't) produced. Career politicians have to keep moving to avoid accountability and the hard work of course.

That is why there is always such a push for freeby directorships on public and private boards. They need the private company jobs because the public agencies are already stacked with their types.

Homosexuals have been hijacked by interests with their own secondary agendas to serve. As if they ever wanted to be like heterosexuals, with their 'relationships' (rad fembot new speak) and break-ups being decided by public bureaucrats, lawyers and courts. Homosexuals were sold a pup by the self-described "Wolves in sheep's clothing", the leftist 'Progressives', whose driving aim (and ideology) is precisely as they say themselves, International Socialism. Any wonder the homosexuals and 'gays' alike are now regimented and controlled by Big Sister State.

Another otb special!

Love his balanced rhetoric.

Mentions:

Feminists - 4

Progressives - 2

...and "zealots, socialism, Marxists, fembots and Leftists" - 1 apiece.

I challenge otb to write a post without mentioning feminists, progressives, Marxists, leftists, socialists or zealots.

After all, I can write a post without mentioning Abbott.

Paul, OTB,
Tech companies are sponsoring the Pride marches and using their paid employees as a literal rent-a-crowd.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/06/29/apple-inc-employees-pass-out-free-itunes-song-cards-at-san-francisco-lgbt-pride-parade
Gay marriage was never part of the Gay agenda, whatever is afoot now has nothing to do with Stonewall or liberation or much of anything relating to the lives of homosexuals.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/huw-lemmey/losing-pride

Paul,

Marriage equality exists in all but name. Gay partners have pretty much all the same rights as married partners, so while I support ME, I as an issue of principle rather than a serious human rights issue, which puts it fair and square into the domain of the conscience vote.

As MPs are elected to represent a constituency, party bloc voting is largely a construct to enable important, and often unpopular legislation to pass, but is being used more and more for everything. This relegates back bench MPs to the role of puppets.

Labor has been under scrutiny from the media for its low profile, 'small target' negativity.

Shorten has no policies to offer. He using this as a distraction and a hopeful wedge, and to poach some political itinerants back from the Greens (who are playing the same political games).

Labor and the Greens tried to use the Bali drug traffickers as a distraction and to wedge Abbott. The tactic failed miserably.

They have also revived Gillard's Class War, with a typical example being Labor's ill-conceived and half-baked attack on negative gearing. Dangerous stuff that risks a run of investment$$ away from housing, where successive federal governments have been dumping government responsibilities onto the private sector to provide and manage welfare housing. Gentrification, foreign investment and foolish politically correct government policies have at State and local government levels wiped out available boarding houses and other cheap share housing, especially in inner city areas. Any run of Australian investors - they are mainly small investors - away from housing will be very, very difficult to turn around.

You'd think that the public would be waking up to the distractions in lieu of practical policy and planning.

Poirot, "I challenge otb to write a post without mentioning feminists, progressives, Marxists, leftists, socialists or zealots."

Poirot, I challenge you to write a post where you actually say something, anything, that isn't just another snipe.