Lateline's Tony Jones speaks with Katy Faust, who was raised by lesbian parents and is in Australia to lobby against same sex marriage.
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NO, SENATOR WONG: 0.1% SHOULD NOT CHANGE MARRIAGE & FAMILY FOR THE 99.9%
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ONE IN A HUNDRED; ONE IN A THOUSAND - SO LET'S CHANGE MARRIAGE & FAMILY FOR THE OTHER 99.9%
According to the 2011 Census, same-sex couples represented about 1% of all couples in Australia. Children in same-sex couple families...
NEW GALAXY POLL for AMF: Reframes the same-sex ‘marriage’ debate
NEW POLL: A child's right to a mum & dad trumps right to gay 'marriage' & parenting
SUMMARY FINDINGS
- By a margin of three to one, Australians agree we should try to ensure that children, where possible, are raised by their own mother and father.
- By...
Letter to 153 CEOs and Directors: On your support for same-sex ‘marriage’
NOTE: In response to newspaper ads placed by Australian Marriage Equality this weekend where 153 companies declare their support for “marriage equality” - see www.corpsupport.org.au - the president of the Australian Marriage Forum, Dr David van Gend, has written this week to all 153 CEOs and company Boards.
Dear...
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MEDIA RELEASE: BILL SHORTEN CALLS FOR A NEW STOLEN GENERATION
"Bill Shorten's proposed redefinition of marriage will abolish a mother or a father from the life of future children, by a deliberate act of parliament” said Dr David van Gend, President of the Australian...
“My dad was gay: why I oppose gay marriage”.
We have read Heather Barwick's account of her grief in having no father in her life, because she was brought up by her mother and a lesbian partner.
We have heard 'Amy', on radio talkback with AMF, describing the same grief and loss and how as a...
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From a doctor who experienced ‘forced adoption’
Former PM Julia Gillard and her "legal advisors" would do well to read this letter AMF got today from a doctor who was herself a child of the forced adoption era. This doctor understands the analogy (expressed in our recent TV ad) between the 1950s-70s violation of...
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To our Senators: “Saying sorry means not doing it again”
With the Senate due to debate David Leyonhjelm's Freedom To Marry Bill on Thursday, and the second anniversary of the National Apology for Forced Adoption only four days ago, the AMF President joins the dots in this article at Online Opinion. Thanks to the magnificent response...
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From the heart of a gay household: ‘No’ to gay parenting
Is it my imagination, or is there some global conspiracy to tell even the deafest of politicians that not every gay person, or child of a gay household, likes the idea of gay ‘marriage’? In fact, that many of them know – and are starting...
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AMF President in the Courier Mail: Stop the Censorship
Dr David van Gend, President of the Australian Marriage Forum, wrote in Queensland's Courier Mail newspaper this week about the censorship and demonisation faced by those who defend a child's right, where possible, to both a mother and father.
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TO SAY a baby needs a mother...