For critics of the government's constitutionally pointless marriage poll, the time has come to "flag down a black cab and head for Real Street", as Red Dwarf's Dave Lister would say.
Time for progressives – if not the LGBTI community, which must speak for itself – to pop a prophylactic Quick-Eze and prepare to eat Humble Pie.
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Same-sex marriage debate: How did we get here?
The same-sex marriage debate has gone postal. What's happened?
Time to give Malcolm Turnbull, George Brandis, and yes, even Peter Dutton, their due credit.
From its comical inception, the Coalition's ungainly "snail-mail" survey championed amazingly by the ultra-conservative Dutton, was the butt of derisive humour.
Transparently self-serving, it seemed like just another hurdle, just another can-kicking exercise, risible and beneath contempt.
Once green-lighted, after a desperate High Court challenge, it provoked the gravest warnings.
It would license a hideous public discourse, applying an unfair society-wide judgment on individual identity - a cold-hearted metric devised exclusively to devalue same-sex attracted relationships.
Zero weight was given to any affirmation arising from the major party leaders backing the change, let alone that flowing from a likely victory.
And in all the indignation, it was completely lost that marriage is by definition quintessentially a social construct. The broader the social engagement in its modernisation, the greater its validity once so broadened.
Politically this has been excruciating.
There's no denying the Prime Minister lost paint in middle Australia by embracing an ostensibly "ridiculous" process. But neither can one ignore the realpolitik. Bluntly, Turnbull saw no realistic alternative if he was to drag his party into the 21st century.
Wisely, equality advocates chose to participate strongly, even as some within favoured a boycott. The temptation was to limit its turn-out to below 35 per cent and then argue its result was meaningless.
Hardheads decided to go for broke. They knew that drumming up the vote was also drumming up the survey's credibility, thus validating the Coalition.
But the bigger principle was worth protecting.
Ironically, the greatest advantage now, assuming a strong public endorsement, is the legitimacy of any question that has been so publicly and extensively litigated.
Indeed, the greatest asset the "yes" case has ahead of the parliamentary vote is that clear public endorsement.
Denial would be betrayal on a colossal scale.
In practical terms, the survey has given Coalition MPs the cover they need to ignore their recalcitrant base and vote squarely for social justice. More than that, it brings a moral and democratic obligation.
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