SSM Plebiscite

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I don't think it will be close, and that's the reason the Christian conservatives are desperately trying to postpone the inevitable with alternative bills and warnings of threats to religious freedom.  I'd like to see the issue taken a little further and give folk freedom from religion 

I was listening to a Liberal MP on the radio a couple of days ago and he is expecting at least 60% in favour.  Anyway, it's only a couple of days until we will know for sure.

I've mentioned this before and I stand by it, a 60/40 vote either way is the worst outcome that could possibly occur.

In my opinion anything that suggests a result with a margin that falls in a range that is even remotely reversible will rip the country apart with protests, riots and persecution from both sides of the debate. Neither side has a monopoly on extremists. The problem is the surveys shows more than 20% of the voting public are undecided, that leaves any 60/40 vote within the reach of a draw regardless of which way it falls!

This plebiscite is perhaps the most gutless pole ever conducted by parliamentarians in the history of the nation!

For example if having a pole was such a good idea on this sort of issue, why didn't Howard give the public a vote on guns, will the gun lobby demand a pole in the future to reverse Howard's laws, and if they don't get it would it lead to protests, radical agendas and extremist actions?