Violent threats from same-sex ‘marriage’ proponents force family group out of hotel
Australia – Threats against hotel staff and a deluge of unearned one-star guest ratings have forced a coalition of family groups opposed to same-sex “marriage” to move their scheduled meeting from the Mercure Sydney Hotel into the offices of the Catholic archdiocese. Tio Faulkner, spokesman for the Family Alliance, one of four groups holding a strategy session about a proposed national plebiscite on same-sex “marriage” set for the meeting of 150 leaders of family, ethnic, and religious groups from all over Australia will go ahead Tuesday night at the Sydney Catholic Archdiocesan offices. “We expect some protests outside, but that’s par for the course,” Faulkner said. According to a joint statement from Faulkner’s group and also the Australian Christian Lobby , Sydney Anglicans, and Sydney Catholics, “threats of violence” against the hotel staff forced the Accors Hotel Group to cancel the event. A hotel spokeswoman told the Australian newspaper that the Accor Hotel Gro