Category Archives: same sex marriage

Senate Enquiry: AMF defends the rights of the child

Seen in Melbourne today at the Senate Committee enquiry into the Green's homosexual marriage Bill (Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010: Dr David van Gend, AMF President (left); Jim Wallace AM, ACL Managing Director, and Dr Lachlan Dunjey, convenor of Doctors...
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AMF to speak to the Senate Committee

The Chairman of Australian Marriage Forum, Dr David van Gend (submission 199), will join the managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Mr Jim Wallace AM (sub 147), at a full day of hearings before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee in Melbourne Friday 4th May. The day will include testimony by teleconference from Professor...
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Our Senate Submission, FYI

Our submission to the Senate Enquiry into the Greens Gay Marriage Bill is up at the Senate site.  See all published subs HERE or read the AMF sub HERE.

 

SOME EXCERPTS FROM THE AMF SUBMISSION

   FOR EVERY CHILD, A MOTHER AND A FATHER
The love between a mother and her baby is...
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Top legal mind surveys the Slippery Slope from Civil Unions…

One of Britains top legal minds, Lord Brennan, gives a warning to those in Australia (Liberal Party take note) who think it is nice and harmless to allow Civil Unions; that this will not lead to full gay marriage:
In 2004, when the Civil Partnership Act was passed to provide legal protections for homosexual...
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Mardi Gras – sexual decadence no basis for Marriage

The Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras last night was a synchronised push for same-sex marriage, with Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Labor Health Minister Tanya Plibersek in attendance and criticising Tony Abbott's opposition to a conscience vote on this subject. It is not clear how an exhibitionist parade, with simulated sodomy as per the screen...
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Qld Civil Partnerships Mimic Marriage

Today the first applications were lodged for civil partnerships in Queensland. They were lodged at the Marriage Registry, to mimic marriage; they allow for a 'celebrant' appointed by the state (a 'notary') and a formal public ceremony, and no doubt flowers and...
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SPIKED editor trashes the racism analogy

That unpredictable leftie, Brendon O'Neill (editor of online magazine SPIKED) writes:
"This comparison between restrictions on interracial marriage and restrictions on gay marriage is utterly moronic; it is historically illiterate and politically opportunistic."
He asks campaigners for same sex marriage to...
"at least be honest about what is happening here: people are campaigning for the setting up of...
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Fighting homophobia or promoting homosexuality?

Jim Wallace's latest contribution to the marriage debate: ACT Education Minister Andrew Barr was pictured last week opening an "anti-homophobia" art display at a Canberra school. So far so good. Everyone is against homophobia, but there is a fine line between that and promoting the lifestyle, especially for parents of school-aged children. Barr was pictured with a "work...
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