Category Archives: rights of the child

Statement from Australian Marriage Forum President

Three months ago, when this postal vote process was announced, our Media Release said no public vote, no Parliament, no court had the authority to repeal nature and change the meaning of marriage. We said that marriage is based on an unchangeable truth: that only man and woman can create new life; only man and...
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A New Way to Betray Children

Australian Marriage Forum President, Dr David van Gend, spoke on Vision Radio this week. You can listen to the full interview here: [audio mp3="http://australianmarriage.org/wp-content/uploads/David-van-gend-vision-radio.mp3"][/audio] His main points include: "Each generation seems to find its own way of betraying and wounding children, and same-sex 'marriage' will be ours." "You don't overturn marriage as a form of therapy - therapy! -...
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Father’s Day is Cancelled

Last week, Neil Mitchell revealed that a kindergarten in Melbourne’s northwest has renamed Father’s Day “special person’s day” to avoid offending children with same-sex parents. http://www.3aw.com.au/neil-mitchell-left-frustrated-and-confused-by-social-justice-in-the-classroom/ Ruby Red Scarlet heads up ‘Social Justice in Early Childhood’ and she said: “If we think about children’s rights and how they get to participate in a community and feel...
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The Silent Voice in this Debate

"Injustice against the child is the central offence of ‘marriage equality’. We are guilty of stealing a child’s birthright when we institute motherless families and fatherless homes as an ideal in our law. Why would we do that to a future child? Have we learnt nothing from past government policies that broke bonds of blood and...
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Say NO to Woolworths

Parents are being warned to avoid shopping with small children at Woolworths on Friday 25 August, when staff will be ‘celebrating sexuality’ for Wear it Purple Day. “Wear it Purple Day embraces and celebrates sexuality, sex and gender diversity.” Mel Smith from the NSW Teachers’ Federation. Common sense says that the dairy section isn’t the appropriate place to...
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E-BOOK: Stealing from a Child: The Injustice of ‘Marriage Equality’

Dr David van Gend’s best-selling book is now available on Kindle and iBook for about $10. This format means the AMF president’s wealth of research – over 400 footnotes – is just a click away. With the national postal vote on marriage now upon us, every thinking Australian needs to read this powerful and moving book. “Compelling” –...
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Why We Can’t Afford to Lose the Fight for Family

The fight for family began long before the wheels were put in motion to perpetrate the final blow. The degendering of marriage tears down the final bastion for children that guaranteed their chance at a family with both a biological mum and a biological dad. This bastion grants them their full identity, the most primal...
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The End Game for Rainbow Activists

The inevitable has happened. An 8- month-old baby boy in Canada has been issued a health card with a "U" in place of “M” or “F” in the space for "sex.” The “genderless” baby is in the care of parent (non-binary transgender person) Kori Doty, who, according to BBC News aims to allow...
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Australian Medical Association Ignores Facts to Support Politically Correct Same Sex ‘Marriage’ Campaign

The credibility of the Australian Medical Association has been called into question after choosing to step into the political arena and make spurious, unscientific claims regarding genderless marriage. The AMA quotes a “quasi-natural experiment”1 to bolster claims that “marriage” improved overall health outcomes among LGBTIQ populations. Perhaps of greatest concern is this claim by the AMA: “The...
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