Canon Richard Tutin from Queensland Churches Together, a body which represents 12 Christian churches including Catholics and Anglicans, said people from different churches were frustrated by the ACL. "They totally have an agenda," he said. "They're more interested in upholding a very, very traditional view of marriage and that's derived in their eyes from scripture and societal practice. "The nuclear family is very much at the heart of that type of thinking, the traditional family of a mother, a father and children is there. "They don't always take into account the differences in family these days."

Mr Tutin said the ACL liked to think they represent all Christians, but they did not "by any stretch of the imagination" and though many churches had set views on particular issues, they also allowed members to form their own opinions. He said he was "not fussed" on the ACL himself, but recognised they represented a view within Christianity. "Some do (get frustrated with the ACL) but the moment we start yelling and screaming, the moment we start complaining it sort of wrecks, well it's Christian against Christian basically, it's not a good image either," he said. "Some of us work with ACL in regards to the Lord Mayor's Prayer Breakfast and we have a reasonable amount of say in the whole thing so it's like the old Australian Democrats in that forum, we have to keep them honest somehow and try to moderate them." Jacob Holman said he was inspired to collect the data on how much the ACL had spoken out about LGBT issues because he believed they spent a "disproportionate" amount of time on it.

He used the ACL website to obtain data on what issues were mentioned in each press release and what issues at the centre of their self-reported media mentions – the news articles they linked to from their site where the ACL were quoted. Mr Holman, who is a volunteer for Melbourne radio station Joy 94.9, put the information into a graph and tweeted it to quite a big response. "Gay marriage is really something quite close to my heart and I really think it's something we really, really need to have and obviously the biggest voice, the biggest campaigner against that has been the Australian Christian Lobby," he said. "I thought they had a huge output of material when Jesus himself said nothing about homosexuality. "I guess I'm just tired of these people saying they're not homophobic and they don't have anything specifically against gay people but when you take into account the sheer volume of the press releases and all their media appearances, you can see the vast majority of what they do is against the rights of gay people.

"I think it's only fair they should be called out on it." ACL managing director Jim Wallace responded to the graph in a written statement which said they are a lobby group and external events meant their commentary on the issue of marriage had increased. “One of issues facing modern Australia at present is a challenge to the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples and ACL has been actively campaigning for marriage to remain between a man and a woman," he said. "The ACL doesn't consider this a LGBT issue or an anti-gay issue but a marriage issue. "...The ACL is not anti-gay. The ACL supported changes made in 2008 to federal laws that removed discrimination in law against same-sex couples."