Source: The Guardian

BY Paul Karp

Senior Australian Catholics have warned that marriage equality should not be a matter of “winner takes all” five months after unsuccessfully advocating a no vote in the postal survey which led to its legalisation.

Fourteen years after the Howard government defined marriage in the civil law as exclusively between a man and woman – a move supported by the Catholic church – Michael Casey from the Australian Catholic University (ACU) told a parliamentary inquiry into religious freedom that laws should help people with differing views on marriage “live and let live”.

At a hearing on Wednesday numerous witnesses from organised religions told the joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade inquiry that marriage equality has changed Australian culture and laid bare the fragility of protections for religious freedom.

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