Homosexual marriage is just the start for the gay agenda
Below is an article from the SMH. Sarah Hanson Young and others are trying to convinve churches the legalization of homosexuality will not impact churches.
Their line is this, the change in the marriage act will not force Churches to marry homosexuals. All churches in Australia would refuse to do so anyways as it is against their position. That's not the point.
They are changing the marriage act completely. They are relentless and aggressive. They care little of the church and are quite prepared to damage one of Australai leading charitable bodies the Salvation Army simply to achieve their rights. They care little that God ordained marriage as a covenant and gave it to government to manage.
This legislation will bring no change? Truth or deception?
However, when you look to the UK, and Canada, you will find that the homosexual agenda is forcing Catholic Schools (Bill 13 Canada) to have anti-bullying club in school.
Essentially these are pro-homosexual clubs, using pro-homosexual materials and resources. In the UK, where charities are shutting down or causing a split with their church because they cannot refuse adoption to gay couples. Christian counselors are being de-registered is they seek to tell a client their lifestyle is the problem. This is only the beginning. Scaremongering? No not at all because once homosexuals get civil unions they are not satisfied, then they want homosexual marriage.
Once they achieve that they will continue to attack churches and christians schools seeking to input homosexuality as a healthy even godly lifestyle. This is a culture war. How many times have I read of Fireman in the US being forced to participate in Gay Pride marches. University student in the US thrown out because in counselling training she could not support the gay agenda. It goes on and on behind the scense. Story after story. How many times have we heard that you can't even raise the topic of the sin of homosexuality and you will get abused and called a bigot. Wait till it becomes law!
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ADVOCATES of same-sex marriage accept Parliament will defeat two bills later this year calling to legalise gay marriage but believe public pressure will ultimately prevail.
The Finance Minister, Penny Wong, one of the strongest proponents for a change to the Marriage Act, said yesterday that change would come.
''I think the campaign is not going to go away because, ultimately, it's a campaign for people's equality,'' she said.
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Same-sex marriage ... proponent Penny Wong believes change will come. Photo: Andrew Meares
A seven-member parliamentary committee split 4-2 against same-sex marriage yesterday with one abstention as it handed down a report which contained no recommendations, only information for all politicians to use to inform their final decision.
The committee chairman and Labor MP, Graham Perrett, along with fellow Labor MP Laura Smyth, favoured gay marriage while Liberal MPs Sharman Stone and Ross Vasta, and Labor's Mike Symon and Shane Neumann opposed it.
The other member, the Liberal moderate Judi Moylan, gave no separate opinion.
Because both pieces of legislation are private members bills, time set aside to debate them is limited and no vote is expected until the end of this year at the earliest.
Priority will be given to the bill introduced by the NSW Labor MP Stephen Jones. The other is a Greens bill, sponsored by Adam Bandt.
''We're short of the numbers at the moment but anything could change,'' Mr Jones said.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will vote against gay marriage but has allowed Labor MPs a conscience vote. Number crunchers estimate about 36 of the 70 Labor MPs will vote for same-sex marriage while 10 to 15 are undecided and the rest will vote against.
Tony Abbott will not allow a conscience vote and all Coalition MPs are required to vote against same-sex marriage. Backbenchers can cross the floor but any frontbencher who does so would have to resign from the shadow ministry.
Mr Bandt, who will hold off on his bill until later this year or next year, said the delay between the start of debate and the final vote would be used to increase public pressure on political leaders, especially Mr Abbott, to have a change of heart.
''I'm optimistic of achieving reform within the life of this Parliament with some more discussion and more persuasion,'' he said.
Parliament's standing committee on social policy and legal affairs received a record 276,437 responses to an online survey it conducted as part of its inquiry.
Church groups and the Australian Christian Lobby have fiercely campaigned against gay marriage, despite Labor's bill exonerating the churches and any other religious groups from having to marry gay people.
Mr Perrett, who holds a marginal Queensland seat, said ''it is important to remember that God did not write the Marriage Act''.
With public opinion polls consistently showing majority support for same-sex marriage, Mr Perrett said it was incumbent upon MPs to respond to growing public support ''by categorically opposing laws that legitimise discrimination''.
Ms Stone and Mr Vasta said the Liberals had promised before the federal election not to legalise gay marriage.
''I do not accept that the view towards marriage has changed since the 2010 federal election,'' Ms Stone said.
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