It was billed as a showdown between two of Parliament's biggest warriors in the same-sex marriage debate.
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In the left corner was Penny Wong, the most high profile lesbian in Australia and mother of two small children with the long-term partner she is not legally able to marry.
In the right was Cory Bernardi, the man who lost his frontbench job in 2012 after he suggested same-sex marriage would lead to the legalisation of polygamy and "consensual sexual relations between humans and animals".
But if anyone was hoping for the glitter to fly on the stage of the National Press Club on Wednesday, they would have been more disappointed than Fred Nile on Mardi Gras night.
What they got was a measured and dare we say, even polite, debate.
Here's how social media saw it:
