GAY TRUTH

A   Senate Select Committee   was formed late last year to resurrect the same-sex marriage debate in the Federal Parliament . Many of the same senators who blocked the people’s vote on same-sex marriage - the pathway the Turnbull Government promised to resolving the issue – are now behind yet another Senate inquiry into a draft bill to change the Marriage Act. ACL along with other groups seeking to preserve marriage and freedom were busy over the break writing   detailed submissions   to the inquiry the committee is running. This latest move by the proponents of change is part of their tactic to cause the Turnbull Government to break its election promise to let the people vote on the future of marriage. Instead, they want the Parliament to tell us what marriage is. I’ve lost count of the number of Senate and House of Representative inquiries into redefining marriage that have been held over the past seven years. I doubt there are any other public policy issues that ha

Last year, Coalition ministers were banned temporarily from appearing on the ABC ’s Q&A   program by then prime minister Tony Abbott . After the treatment received by Regional Development Minister Fiona Nash on   Q&A  last Monday, it remains to be seen if some Coalition ministers will implement a private boycott and avoid appearing before presenter Tony Jones and the program’s invariably left-stacked baying audiences . In recent years, many ABC programs have been obsessed with the issue of what some call same-sex marriage and others term marriage equality. So there was no surprise on Monday evening when Jones called the first question on this topic, which occupied about a third of the program. Comedian and actress Magda Szubanski was asked to respond to the first question from the audience about the plebiscite and all that. She declared that “a lot of us in the LGBTQI community ” did not want a plebiscite and argued that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer an