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Transgender and high suicide rates

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Studies that have been done of transgendered people who have had sex reassignment surgery , people who have been followed for 20 or so years have found that after 10 years from the surgery, that their suicide mortality rate was actually 20 times higher than the non-transgendered population. So I’m very concerned that here we are encouraging young people to do things to their bodies … like chest binding for young girls … [and] penis tucking … Now this is taking kids on a trajectory that may well cause them to want to take radical action, such as gender reassignment surgery…  – Lyle Shelton , managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby , speaking on Q&A on February 29, 2016. Australia’s  Safe Schools Coalition  program has been accused of  “promoting a radical view of gender and sexuality”  in schools. The program’s architects say it aims to boost acceptance of same sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students, staff and ...

Australia: Qld Government hiding safe schools running homosexual indoctrination program

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The Australian Christian Lobby QLD Director Wendy Francis said it was time the QLD Government comes clean and releases the names of the schools that have signed up to the controversial so-called Safe Schools program, particularly as concerns with the program linger. “It is not good enough for the QLD Government to keep secret from parents the names of the schools that are using the Safe Schools Coalition resources,” Ms Francis said. “It is hard for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Education Minister Kate Jones to defend their position when the Federal Government has called for greater transparency in the program and there remains deep concerns with the remaining gender ideology. “It is disturbing that the Opposition Party has been kept in the dark about the full extent of the program’s use in QLD.” Last month the ACL resorted to lodging a freedom of information request in order to obtain the names of the schools involved. The ACL in QLD is running a petition against the S...

Let people vote against sinful homosexual marriage

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A peoples’ vote on marriage is not a ‘cop out’ or something to be feared, Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Lyle Shelton said today. “Changing the definition of marriage is the biggest social change a society can make with enormous consequences for the rights of children and for freedom of conscience ,” Mr Shelton said. “If motherlessness or fatherlessness is to be institutionalised by law, the people should have a say first. If Australians who support the timeless understanding of marriage are to be considered bigoted under same-sex marriage and associated anti-discrimination laws , then the people should have a say first. It is not for politicians, at the behest of a well-organised lobby, to redefine marriage for all Australians.” Mr Shelton said it would be far more divisive for the nation if politicians redefined marriage without giving the people a say. “Very few issues have had the parliamentary time expended on them as the push for same-sex ma...

Gay Marriage will crush religious freedom

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Pro and anti-Proposition 8 protesters rally in front of the San Francisco City Hall as the California Supreme Court holds a session in the to determine the definition of marriage (Strauss v. Horton cases). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson ’s call for freedom of conscience to be protected is welcome but does not meet the social justice objections to redefining marriage, the Australian Christian Lobby said today. “It is good that Mr Wilson wants to avoid the overseas experience where florists, cake makers, photographers and wedding chapel owners are being hauled before courts and punished with fines for their belief that marriage is between one man and one woman,” ACL Managing Director Lyle Shelton said. “ACL sincerely thanks Mr Wilson for his good faith in recognising that millions of Australians will always believe the timeless definition of marriage and that they should be shielded from legal action for publicly manifesting their beliefs. “We al...

Australian High Court unanimously overturns gay ‘marriage’ law

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CANBERRA , December 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - In a unanimous ruling today the Australian High (Supreme) Court stuck down the same-sex "marriage" law  passed less than a month ago  by the parliament of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The Australian Capital Territory is a statutory territory created to house the federal seat of government, and is mainly associated with the national capital, Canberra. It has internal self-government, but lacks the full legislative independence enjoyed by the Australian states . The Supreme Court ruled that the Australian Capital Territory's Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 was inconsistent with the Federal Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and was therefore unconstitutional. The Court ruled that the Australian Capital Territory's  Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013  was inconsistent with the Federal Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man ...

Same-sex marriage bill: Christians vow to fight on if High Court allows equality in ACT

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Lyle Shelton , managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby , said he was optimistic the court would overturn the marriage equality law. Mr Shelton said if the court ruled the ACT law was found to be constitutional Australia would be left ''with a hodge-podge of marriage laws''. ''Now that is not in the nation's interest and something would need to be done to get us back to a state of uniform marriage laws,'' he said. The Federal Parliament has the power to overturn territory laws and should do so immediately. Mr Shelton said homosexual marriage bills had been rejected by the federal, NSW, South Australian and Tasmanian parliaments. This is a clear signal to the community. In France and Hawaii immoral homosexual marriage was pushed through against huge public protests. In New York, the Mayor paid off Republican members to vote for homosexual marriage, but these Republicans have since lost their seats due to public backlash. Shelton said if...

Legalising homosexual marriage it being taught in schools as equal to normal marriage

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English: Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Australian Christian lobby has issued a bizarre statement arguing that same sex marriage could lead to a new " stolen generation ", and would inevitably lead to children being taught the mechanics of homosexual sex in school sex education classes. ACL managing director Lyle Shelton said Kevin Rudd 's overnight change-of-mind ignored the consequence of "robbing children of their biological identity through same-sex surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technologies ". Kevin Rudd's explanation also lacks theological support. Instead he has been given an incorrect argument by a gay activist regarding; slavery, stoning adulters, as justification we have changed these practices why not marriage. "Marriage is not just an affectionate relationship between two people regardless of gender," Mr Shelton said. "Marriage has always been about providin...

Kevin Rudd who claims to be a Christian support immoral homosexual marriage?

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English: Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Kevin Rudd has endorsed immoral homosexual marriage, changing his position from supporting the Biblical view to supporting an immoral view.  ''The secular Australian state should be able to recognise same sex marriage,'' Mr Rudd wrote in a blog post on Monday night. ''This change in position has come about as a result of a lot of reflection, over a long period of time, including conversations with good people grappling with deep questions of life, sexuality and faith.'' What deep faith questions has this man asked? What biblical revelation has he received apart from the Bible? Has he read his Bible at all? The former Prime Minister, who only last September voted against legalising same sex marriage in a parliamentary vote that lost 98-42, said his change of thinking had been precipitated by a recent conversation with a friend and former colleague, who came out as ga...