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JIM FARMER, a leader with Martin Luther King of the black civil rights movement in the United States, once remarked of a dichotomy of attitude in his native land: "In the North they don't care how high you get so long as you don't get too close; in the South they don't care how close you get so long as you don't get too high."
Australia is not alone in emulating Southern race attitudes in relation to homosexuality. It is rude, unreasonable and unfashionable to be hostilely distant from a gay man or woman because of his or her sexual orientation. But do you want "people like that" in charge of things? That was the essence of Senator Bill Heffernan's attack in ...