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The Australian Greens party has hardened its stance on the LGBT agenda in view of the 2019 federal elections to the Senate on May 18 and the House of Representatives on November 2. The long list of “LGBTIQ+” policies the Greens want to implement includes a commitment to end an existing program funding the presence of religious chaplains in public schools and to use the money in favor of “secular” and “inclusive” support for “diverse” students. Other anti-religious initiatives are included on the list, in particular, “the removal of religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws.” Religious and private schools are especially targeted. The Australian Greens are a nominally environmentalist organization that started with “ecological” concerns. From its creation in 1992, the left-leaning party not only campaigned for “sustainability” but also for “social justice,” participative democracy and pacifism, in the vein of the Green movement that had objectively supported the Soviet ...

Image via Wikipedia The Australian Senate has voted down a motion by the Green Party that called on the federal government to support same-sex “marriage.” The motion was put forward by Green Senator Sarah Hanson-Young , who told the Senate that Prime Minster Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott , both of whom oppose any amendment to the Marriage Act 1961 , were out of step with community attitudes on same-sex “marriage.” “The prime minister and the opposition leader are, of course, entitled to their personal views, but I do not believe they should be imposing their views on the rest of the community on this issue,” she told the Senate on July 6th. Hanson-Young added that a same-sex “marriage” vote should be on conscience rather than along party lines. The motion was defeated in a vote of 31 to 9, with only the Senate’s nine Greens voting in favor of it. Hanson-Young’s motion, available starting on page 32 of July 6th  Hansard , pointed to gay “marriage” legi...