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Around the world, at least the English-speaking world , parents and politicians are under pressure to accept the scientific and moral validity of same-sex relationships and the transgender lifestyle. Fortunately, there has been a pushback from academics dismayed by the lack of academic rigor in many claims. Today we feature the main ideas of a report by University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson. September 19, 2016  (MercatorNet)  — One of the biggest setbacks for same-sex marriage in Australia has been the uproar around curriculum materials produced by the national  Safe Schools Coalition  (SSCA) for children in years 7 and 8. These are supposed to stop bullying of homosexual and transgender students, but they also involve educating all students about sensitive topics, including sexual morality. Hundreds of schools, mostly government-run, have signed up. After noisy protests from parents, religious groups and politicians, the Federal Government...

La Trobe University (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The University that promoted homosexuality in Australia schools entitled Safe Schools is now saying Children can experience “a sense of power and control in sexual encounters with adults” and sexual pleasure , according to a senior La Trobe University academic who supports the controversial Safe Schools Coalition Australia program. Dr Steven Angelides is the Senior Grants Administrator of La Trobe’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), which launched the “Safe Schools” program. He has argued that children are capable of consenting to sexual activity with adults, and that such activities are not necessarily harmful. “I am deeply concerned about articles by Dr Angelides, whose views appear to be fundamentally at odds with those of parents,” FamilyVoice research officer Ros Phillips said today. In a 2004 article “Sex and the Child”, published in the journal Meanjin [Volume 63, Issue 4], Dr Angelides wrote: T...

What sort of marriages do homosexual people want? Behind the heat of the political campaigns for and against gay marriage lie some more subtle issues.  This applies to the Christian opposition to the change, but there are also debates within gay communities. A panel of homosexual authors at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ festival expressed some radical ideas about marriage. The topic was “Why get married when you could be happy?” and the panel, facilitated by Annette Shun Wah , included: Jeanette Winterson , a best selling British Author; Benjamin Law , Australian writer; Masha Gessen , Russian author and journalist; and Dennis Altman , director of the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University . Eternity  can’t venture an opinion as to how representative these voices are in the gay community. But they are distinguished and significant voices which contradict the bland assurances that heterosexual marriages won’t be affected if gay marriage is introduced i...