From the Bolt blog this is a good piece on why Abbott was hated for not towing the "green-gay gospel". I also recommend the last episode of South Park on political correctness gone mad. It's bad in the US but it's even worse here.
Brendan O’Neill on the coup of the media elite: A coup has two parts: the hidden skulduggery and the public justifications for such skulduggery. It’s only by considering both that ... something very interesting - and worrying - starts to emerge: a feeling that Abbott was dumped not because he was an ineffective leader but because his world view failed to conform with what political and media insiders consider to be proper and progressive…
(I)t also feels like a chattering-class coup, the exiling of a leader for daring to think things that opinion-shapers consider heretical…
(O)ne consistent message takes shape: a key problem with Abbott was that he was “out of touch” on certain issues, most notably climate change and gay marriage. This has shaped the coverage of the coup around the world… The judgment of Turnbull and Abbott via the green-gay gospel was repeated across the media, from CNN to The Sydney Morning Herald. CNN ran a piece headlined “Five things to know about Australia’s new PM”. No 1 was that he had challenged Abbott before. Guess what No 2 and No 3 were? Yep, “He’s strong on climate change” and “He supports same-sex marriage"… The mantra of “He supports same-sex marriage” - uttered everywhere - is the new way of saying: “He goes to church every Sunday.” It marks him out as “one of us”, unlike Abbott…
Whatever the internal Liberal machinations that led to the ousting of Abbott, the public mythologisation of his removal is revealing and terrifying. It speaks to the new intolerance, where anyone who refuses to buy into chattering-class orthodoxies can expect ridicule, and maybe even the termination of their careers.
