What liberal women saw as routes to equality, conservatives saw as invasions of the private sphere of morality, an invasion only a huge, interventionist government could accomplish.
And for a nation that claims "race blindness" as the road to equality, that's disturbing — and makes our route a little hard to believe in when race and ethnicity are the first things people want to know about us.
Birmingham, who is among that group, said the plebiscite was the quickest route to marriage equality and urged Wong to support the vote.
That's a great accomplishment on the route to gender equality.
Avoiding it seems an easier route to social equality.
Another route to gender equality is encouraging women to support other women.
But when it comes to doing something about it, the real barrier is just a behavioural mindset, especially in politicians, to see these challenges as a long term opportunity for better quality lifestyles and a route to greater social equality.
When I mentioned at the beginning of this piece that I believe Edie's faith in the Constitution is well-placed, I wrote so precisely because the Constitution's myriad protections provide us with several routes to full equality.
There is another route to the conclusion that equality per se is not morally valuable.
The easier route to a little more educational equality was to deprive them of their charitable status by arguing that they didn't provide enough public benefit; they are, after all, run as businesses – they charge cash for a service.
