On Tuesday 2 August, ABC's The Drum showed their bias by presenting a half hour debate on same-sex “marriage” with just one supporter of traditional marriage, ACL's Lyle Shelton, up against a stacked panel of four SSM advocates. Hardly what any reasonable person would call a fair debate.
Regardless, Lyle presented a strong case for maintaining the current definition...
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HATE SPEECH FROM BILL SHORTEN – OUT OF LINE AND OUT OF TOUCH
Question: In what country will you be accused of links to extreme terrorism for agreeing with your country's law?
Answer: In Bill Shorten's Australia
During Friday night's news.com.au Facebook debate, Bill Shorten made...
SMH publishes AMF response to questions on ‘marriage equality’
What is Australian Marriage Forum's opposition to same-sex marriage based on?
The heart of our opposition to same-sex 'marriage' is that such an institution would deliberately deprive future children of either their mother or their father, and that is an injustice we should never contemplate. It hurts children if we break the bond with their mother...
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Swept under the carpet
[AN IMPORTANT ARTICLE POSTED AT MERCATORNET]
Australian research from the 1990s has emerged as key evidence in the debate about same-sex parenting.
The constant refrain from supporters has been that there is no difference in outcomes for children in traditional marriages or same-sex couples. In 2010 Judge Vaughn Walker struck down a voter-approved constitutional referendum in California,...
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Gay Activists Need to Get Beyond Blackmail
Great piece by Gary Johns in The Australian exposing the emotional extortion by gay activist groups - you know the line: "Give us gay marriage, you conservative homophobes, or you are culpable for gay suicide".
Progressive media and lobby groups play the same despicable game.
On August 12, Sky News presenter Peter van Onselen suggested...
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Interview: Katy Faust lobbies against same-sex marriage
Lateline's Tony Jones speaks with Katy Faust, who was raised by lesbian parents and is in Australia to lobby against same sex marriage.
Click Here to watch the interview...
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Same-sex marriage and religious freedom
The AMF Team commends to readers some good recent commentary on the issue of same-sex marriage and why it creates religious freedom issues, for churches in particular.
Paul Kelly from The Australian wrote that:
In political terms, legalisation of same-sex marriage brings state and church into direct conflict. To try to solve this...
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Opposing gay marriage as a gay man
Published in the Irish Daily Mail, 5 April 2011 - -
I am not a big believer in people making arguments on the back of who or what they happen to be. When I last made the case in these pages against gay marriage, about a year ago, I didn’t feel the need...
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After homosexual ‘marriage’ …what comes next?
The slippery slope argument is a strong one in this debate.
If marriage is no longer one man, one woman for life, then any number of alternatives seem to be possible. If homosexuals can argue that a loving committed relationship should qualify anyone for the institution of marriage, then other equally binding and loving unions should...
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