Captain Bloggs, I might suggest that consistency for its own sake doesn’t make a whole lot of sense either.
There is some merit in speaking out on issues that you believe you may have an influence over while not picking pointless fights when it will only demonstrate your weakness in a field of debate also seems to have merit even you disagree with the issue at hand.
We Australians all get a bit tetchy when people talk about sex, politics and religion, I suspect we may respectfully disagree on the issues at hand but I think talking about these issues respectfully is what makes the world go around, perhaps in that much we have a bit in common.