Dan1; you don't have to believe me and I suspect the article referenced below will be too confronting for you to read in full, but please at least consider these points from it:
"Tony Abbott is ripping his anti-gay marriage strategy out of the US playbook"
"... "He knows they cannot win on the merits of their argument," explains Wolfson, noting that Australians already overwhelmingly back gay marriage, "so they have to make the debate about something else." That's why Abbott announced that this was about political correctness and freedom of speech rather than gay marriage. ..."
