Politics

Muehlenberg Warns Against Marriage Destruction 

Social commentator Bill Muehlenberg warned that the catch cry of Marriage Equality by proponents of same sex marriage would in fact lead to the destruction of the institution and social cohesion.

Speaking in Perth, to an audience of over 500, at a Witness to Marriage ceremony conducted by Victory Life Church, Muehlenberg said that that the demand for SSM would continue the persecution of people who did not want to be involved in what they considered sham marriages.

Giving International and Australian examples Muehlenberg demolished the arguments advanced by Senator Penny Wong (Labor SA) in her National Press Club debate with Senator Cory Bernardi (Liberal SA).

He documented the social costs to children, the stress, financial burden imposed on opponents to the homosexual lobby, the incessant political action where no sooner had the Parliament rejected one bill for SSM then another was put on the parliamentary agenda. He said over the last dozen years the Parliament had dealt with the issue on no less than 15 occasions with another debate this month.

“Senator Wong’s assertion of homosexuals gracefully accepting that they know where to go when they need services belies current practice,” Muehlenberg said.

Instead of passing by on the other side, like those who preceded the Good Samaritan, militant homosexuals have a track record of persecuting and prosecuting those who differ in their views.

A notorious recent case was where a fine of $135,000 was imposed on an Oregon couple who declined to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. However, they were not alone as a $30,000 fine was imposed on an innkeeper in Vermont who declined to cater for a wedding reception. Earlier this year in Indiana a pizza shop owner was similarly treated.

Noting Christian bakery merchants seem particularly susceptible to legal and social actions by militant homosexual activists Muehlenberg said, “one wonders whether a black baker refusing to bake a cake for the KKK, or a Jewish baker denying a neo-Nazi group service would be treated this way?”

He listed other problems, caused by activists, including:

*a Catholic adoption agency being forced to close rather than compromise its charter and principle

* Danish Protestant churches being forced to conduct SSM

* 40,000 UK teachers being given an ultimatum on how they were to accept the homosexual agenda or face the sack through non-compliance

* the judicial activism in the US that had imposed gay marriage on all the States of the Union despite the overwhelming rejection of it in virtually all states that had voted on the question.

* a top Canadian sports TV anchorman was sacked for simply believing in ‘true marriage,’ while an Florida principal lost his job for simply being a supporter of traditional marriage on his own Facebook

* the campaign by various industries and TV stations to fall into line by accepting homosexual polemics, including cancelling paid Christian advertising and Christian programs.

As Muehlenberg noted, Christian messages are ignored, their views derided, or subjected to ridicule, particularly by  slanted ABC panels on such programs as Q &A.

 “Even insomniacs suffer. A brief mention by evangelist Kenneth Copeland of homosexuality was too much for Channel 10 to bear. One viewer complained about this show, which was aired at 4 am in the morning, but that was enough to pull the program,” Muehlenberg said.

The social commentator also referenced his host, Pastor Margaret Court, as a target of the militants.

Whereas she was the winner of 24 Grand Slams, Muehlenberg was equally as devastating slamming those homosexual militants who “preach diversity, except when you diverge with them. According to these activists the greatest female tennis player of all time should have been denied the honour of a court named after her. They label her as an extremist simply for supporting an orthodox Christian position.”

Muehlenberg also said that another great Australian patriot, Joe de Bruyn, a long serving leader of Australia’s largest union –the Shop Assistants Union (SDA)- was similarly denied a meritorious union award for being a defender of traditional marriage.

The other speaker at the meeting was a constitutional law professor, Augusto Zimmermann, who was well received by the audience with a scholarly address on the ramifications of SSM in the US following the 5-4 Supreme Court decision to recognise gay marriage.

Among those in attendance were many parliamentarians including Senator Joe Bullock (Labor WA), and Liberals Luke Simpkins MP and Ian Goodenough MP.

Thirteen couples were presented with certificates in recognition of significant milestones in their married life.