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The Australian Medical Association has lent its authority to the cause of homosexual ‘marriage’ by issuing its Position Statement on Marriage Equality (May 20th 2017). This was done without consulting AMA members or the wider medical community, and now we, the undersigned medical practitioners, respond. Our nation’s peak medical body should not publish misleading information, yet that is what happens in this Position Statement. Of several examples, the most egregious is the assertion that there is no peer-reviewed evidence of “poorer health or psychosocial outcomes” for children raised in same-sex parented families. That is a politically potent claim and unequivocally false. We reference peer-reviewed articles that do find poorer outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples, and we also show that the AMA was aware of this evidence. By denying publicly that there is any such evidence of detriment to children, while admitting privately that there is, the AMA has misled the pub...

The 2005 American Psychological Association (APA) Brief on ‘‘Lesbian and Gay Parenting ’’, which is repeatedly invoked in the same-sex marriage debate , makes the strong assertion:  “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents.”  However, Loren Marks’ 2012 paper in the journal Social Science Research systematically examines whether the APA’s conclusions are valid and precise, based on the cited scientific evidence.  Are we witnessing the emergence of a new family form that provides a context for children that is equivalent to the traditional marriage-based family? Even after an extensive reading of the same-sex parenting literature, the author cannot offer a high confidence, data-based ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’ response to this question.  To restate, not one of the 59 studies referenced in the 2005 APA Brief compares a large, random, represen...

The Prime Minister , Julia Gillard , due to pressure from Homosexual activists has pulled out of speaking at the Australian Christian Lobby 's national conference after its leader suggested a homosexual ''lifestyle'' was more hazardous to health than smoking. The group's managing director, Jim Wallace , made the comment in Tasmania this week during a debate on same-sex marriage. Rodney Coomes from the Homosexual lobby did admit to particular health issues that face the homosexual community but attacked Wallace's dated statistics. It has outraged homosexual campaigners, who called for Ms Gillard to distance herself from the standard position of Christianity in that any sexual act outside of heterosexual marriage is sin.  Homosexuals want Gillard not to speak at the ACL conference. It does beg the question why would the ACL want Gillard as their speaker considering the fact that she is the first PM to flout a live-in boyfriend. Such a relationship according...

A board member of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) has resigned less than 48 hours after Australian media reported that he had signed a document supporting true marriage. Professor Kuruvilla George, who is also Victoria’s deputy chief psychiatrist, signed a pro-marriage submission to a Senate inquiry on the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010 in March. (There are currently three bills to change the legal definition of marriage before Australian parliament, which are the subject of two separate inquiries). Professor Kuruvilla George When it was revealed on Sunday by various newspapers that Professor George had been one of a group of 150 medical professionals who submitted to the inquiry that “the evidence is clear that children who grow up in a family with a mother and father do better in all parameters than children without,” there were immediate calls for his resignation. Kerryn Phelps , the former national president of the Austral...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has distanced itself from a group of prominent doctors who say children are better off when raised by heterosexual parents, rather than same-sex couples. Around 150 medical practitioners from the group Doctors for the Family , including a member of Victoria's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission , say children raised in heterosexual relationships "do better in all parameters". The group has signed a submission to the Senate inquiry into marriage equality, opposing same-sex marriage and asserting that marriage between a man and a woman is the "basis for a healthy society". The submission says that marriage, as it is currently defined under the Marriage Act 2004, is more stable than same-sex marriages. Doctors for the Family's convener, Lachlan Dunjey, is concerned about the health consequences for children of gay marriages . "It's well proven that children who grow up with a mother an...