New South Wales State Election, 2015

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There are plenty of social conservatives in Ireland's Labour Party, in the Seanad more so than the Dáil, though it can be hard to tell individual positions from votes because strict party whips are imposed on all votes by all parties.

But I must say that the idea of universal social progressivism among English-speaking trade unions (if that category even makes sense), based on the evidence of one (hardly dispassionate) movie, is unsound. Furthermore, the idea that opposing gay marriage is politically equivalent to advocating the genetic inferority of blacks is also unsound.

There can be a strange tendency to see politics as basically a small set of easily-categorised international political tendencies, with extremely minor deviations in their national expressions, and no role for differences among electorates to influence party positions. This naivety should probably be discarded.

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I see no difference between thinking blacks are genetically inferior to whites and thinking that gays and lesbians have no right to marry.

You personally are perfectly entitled to think that, but because not everyone else agrees with you, there is a significant political difference between espousing these two positions, particularly in Australia which has a different political tradition to those of your country and of mine.

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Why would Australian women be particularly opposed to social conservatism?