GAY TRUTH

The campaign to redefine marriage has recently gained such momentum - with now three and soon four bills before the Commonwealth Parliament - that many think it is inevitable. This can leave those with misgivings feeling that they are already losers in a done deal. Some think it is the inexorable progress of liberty and equality - which leaves the doubters on "the wrong side of history." In this context supporters of classical marriage are presumed to have no real arguments to offer. So here I want to offer some reasons - not decrees from on high or from the past, not expressions of hatred or prejudice - but  reasons  I hope anyone can understand. I also hope these reasons prove persuasive and helpful in proclaiming and witnessing to true marriage among families, friends and colleagues. Regardless, I hope this will help explain why Australian law has always held, and many people still hold, that marriage is for people  of opposite sex . I will examine five common

The same-sex marriage debate entered a new phase of intolerance with Labor voting to expel parliamentarians who advocate man-woman only marriage. In two Parliaments time , Labor MPs and Senators who vote against redefining marriage will be expelled from the party. Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Lyle Shelton said this was devastating for the millions of ethnic, indigenous and religious Australians who will never support a state-imposed redefinition of marriage . "Sadly this is a cynical ploy to force the Coalition to drop its policy on marriage when Labor's real agenda is one of intolerance to its own who dissent. "If this is the principle Labor forces its people to comply with, what will be the out-working of this principle on dissenters when it is next in power? "Will there be freedom of conscience to choose not to provide services to same-sex weddings? "Will Christian, Muslim and Jewish schools be allowed to teach children a definition of

An Australian homosexual advocate quoting another homosexual university lecturer demands any form of homosexual conversion be closed by the government because they believe you're born homosexual and it is not a choice. But this advocate wants to go further! Having been pastoral credentials removed because of his homosexual lifestyle as proscribed by scripture and church code of conduct, he now demands all Australian churches to adjust their understanding of homosexuality as a sin and to promote it as something good. Third claiming to be a Christian he denounces any form of prayer as ineffective. ABC ARTICLE BELOW A gay rights group in Australia is pushing for psychiatric therapies designed to convert people to heterosexuality to be outlawed as a bill is put before the US Congress to do exactly that. Ambassadors and Bridge Builders International is pushing for gay conversion therapy to be made illegal Australia-wide. Founder Anthony Venn-Brown was once an Evangelist pasto