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A former senior Australian Medical Association official has lashed out at the peak medical body’s campaign for homosexual marriage, accusing it of using false and misleading information in claiming the reform was a public health issue . Dr Chris Middleton , a former president of the Tasmanian AMA, has joined with five AMA members in penning a 15-page report savaging the credibility of the national body’s Position Statement on Homosexual marriage . Dr Middleton, who was inducted in the AMA Roll of Fellows in 2011, renounced his life membership of the body and was critical of its process to adopt a position in favour of homosexual marriage, saying the membership was not consulted. The gastroenterologist, who does not support homosexual marriage, expects hundreds of doctors to join the group in opposing the AMA’s position. Dr Middleton’s report will be sent to federal MPs this weekend. “The position statement has very little to say about medicine and was little more than a politica...

People seem to forget that the marriage plebiscite was offered as a compromise by social conservatives to deal with an issue which has dogged politics for a decade. There have been 18 failed attempts to push same-sex marriage through parliament since 2004. When does no mean no? For defenders of traditional marriage, the plebiscite was a significant concession and a risk they didn’t need to take.  But if the other side doesn’t want to come half way, then so be it. Take our olive branch and shove it where the sun don’t shine. Lyle Shelton from the Australian Christian Lobby .   “I never thought I would be meeting secretly in this country in my lifetime,” says Lyle Shelton, managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby. “It’s not the Australia I grew up in or the Australia I want for my children.” Shelton says his receptionist at ACL’s Canberra offices is regularly distressed by abusive phone calls. Uninvited visitors have intimidated staff. ACL now has to l...

The national newspapers reporting of the freedom-sapping effects of same-sex marriage legislation is a potential game-changer in the long-running debate. After years of the gay lobby saying there were no consequences to changing the definition of marriage , suddenly mainstream media is waking up to the fact that this is not true. Concerns that ACL and others have raised for years about the impacts on freedom of speech and religion are now being taken seriously by serious journalists. The action against Hobart Archbishop Julian Porteous and the entire Australian Catholic Bishop’s Conference in the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commission has woken journalists at News Corp with a jolt. The action is by Greens political candidate and transgender activist, Martine Delaney, who has claimed offence under the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act over a Catholic booklet entitled “Don’t Mess with Marriage”. The booklet contains all of the key arguments our side of the debate wou...