Marriage Amendment Bill 2012

REPORTED FROM FEDERATION CHAMBER

The Deputy Speaker reported that the bill had been returned from the Federation Chamber for further consideration and presented a certified copy of the bill. 12:26:01 PM Question That the bill be now read a second time put. The House divided (the Deputy Speaker, Ms A. E. Burke, in the Chair)

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Coverage HERE in the Australian: The always-incisive Senator from Tasmania cuts through the adult-centred narcissistic slop and states the obvious: that marriage is fundamentally about the needs of children to have both a mum and a dad; that no man can be a mother to a little child; and that a mother is...

From the Australian website, this summing up of the cases for and against, featuring Penny Wong, Adam Bandt; Jim Wallace and Kevin Andrews. In essence, the division is between the adult-centred and the child-centred views. "Equality" is an issue for both positions - one the equal right of adults to access the social status of 'marriage'; the...

Stranger than fiction. While the toxic sludge of the twittersphere settles on Senator Ron Boswell as its hate-object of the day (try #Boswell) for objecting yesterday (see HERE) to the marriage of two women because it stops a kid having a dad ("Who takes the boy to football?... Who takes him camping and fishing?")...

Gay marriage is not the cure

• by: David van Gend • September 14th 2012. • From: The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/gay-marriage-is-not-the-cure/story-e6frgd0x-1226473730467

THE Left knows a great prize is within its grasp: any law redefining marriage will mandate the new definition with the full force of anti-discrimination law, thus completing the 1960s sexual revolution. Hence the commitment by Jim Wallace, head of...

In an article HERE at Online Opinion, just brought to AMF's attention by a supporter, Associate Professor Rob Cover (pictured) of the University of WA casts doubt on the simplistic political spin (or political blackmail might be more accurate) which says Parliament must legalise gay marriage or be culpable for gay suicide. Some...

A senior British QC has analysed the legal impact on individuals (parents in particular) and institutions (schools, churches, businesses) of legalising homosexual marriage. As AMF has warned, legalising gay marriage means, above all, normalising homosexual behaviour in the wider culture, and the full force of anti-discrimination law will be used to crush conscientious objection to...

MEDIA RELEASE

Christian leaders urge Parliament to protect the definition of marriage

(Received by AMF: Sunday 09/09/12)   With Parliamentary debate on marriage beginning again tomorrow in Canberra, 19 of Australia’s denominational leaders and 267 other church leaders have urged the Parliament to protect the Marriage Act. The leaders have signed a joint statement calling for the Act to remain...

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 6th September 2012

ACL’s Jim Wallace right to warn of health risks of normalising gay marriage

“There is no dispute that homosexual behaviour does carry grave health risks, including the fact that over 80% of new cases of AIDS in Australia are in ‘men who have sex with men’” said Dr David van Gend,...

The Australian who has shouldered the biggest burden of defending natural marriage is former SAS commander and now head of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), Jim Wallace. Watching the intellectual pigmies of politics and media spitting at him yesterday was a disgusting sight - disgusting, in that public discourse on the greatest moral issue of...