Politics/Society

Telling it like it is

Queensland doctor, David van Gend, speaks up for the values of  traditional marriage in his important book Stealing From A Child, by correctly identifying marriage as a vehicle, primarily, for the  development of the child.

The state, until recently, had no interest in a person’s ‘love.’ However, the reproductive nature of marriage and the family unit has been the bedrock of a society and hence the state has always been interested in that foundational pillar of a cohesive state.

The recent callous disregard for the rights of children has been amply demonstrated in recent times by some politicians and commentators, caving in to the strident demands of social activists.

Even so-called conservative television commentators, are quick to placate the rainbow crowd by declaring they will vote for gay marriage.

Dr van Gend exposes them for the sham conservatives they are, simply by using facts, in this well researched book warning of the inherent dangers in redefining marriage.

Indeed, he has had experience of intolerant bigots who seek to deny his democrat rights.

The doctor’s office has been trashed,as have those of  principled, moderate conservative politicians like Senator Cory Bernardi and Kevin Andrews MP, simply for expressing opinions, while the doctor’s original printer was intimidated from publishing this important book.

The falsehoods and angry polemics of the Left are repudiated by van Gend by interviewing many people who grew to maturity in the homes of homosexual unions. The common thread is, not the denigration of those that raised them, but rather the regret of a missing role model.

These people have every right to express disappointment in not having a mother or father, always a distressing feature, but even more so if it becomes state policy to deliberately downgrade the importance of such roles. Gay marriage doesn’t just redefine that institution but also alters the family structure by denying children of their birthright –a mother and father.

The ‘fruits’ of the intolerance industry are already being sighted on their withered vine in other areas; from the obnoxious persecutions under 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, encouraged by zealots such as Tim Soutphommasane who called for people to lodge complaints against cartoonists, like Bill Leak, for daring to criticise the lack of parental attention by some some fathers in Aboriginal communities.

This ‘touting for business’ should have seen Soutphommasane sacked from his $330,000 job.

Instead group identities have become the sacred cow of the Left and star chamber inquisitors.

However, in contrast, when the mild mannered director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Lyle Shelton, is offensively referred to as a ‘nauseating piece of filth,’ by a member of the lamestream media nothing is said by that same media. Neither was anyone ‘encouraged’ to protest on that occasion.  Apparently all attacks on Christians are fair game.

Far easier to bring Queensland  university ‘recalcitrants’ to heel for their temerity to object to  the blatant discrimination against them because they dared to use a computer lab reserved for indigenous students.

One of the students was facing a $250,000 penalty under the ‘new enlightenment,’ until a Federal Court judge threw this piece of madness out of court, while, so called, political leaders, Turnbull and Shorten, simply pass by on the other side.

As Senator Eric Abetz ( Liberal, Tas.) said that while the students eventually won they have had their names trashed for three years by the Human Rights Commission and endured great stress.

Thus, in the Orwellian state we have had the ridiculous situation of those protesting against discrimination being discriminated against under a legal process that has descended down the corridors of madness into something that belongs in Dante’s Inferno.

Similarly, those who defend true marriage are derided as bigots and homophobes and the author details the multi-pronged attacks on society, faith and free speech.

The plethora of US examples where bakers, florists, photographers have been sued by activists simply because they have not wanted to officiate at a homosexual wedding gives ample warning to Australians.

Dr van Gend rightly nails Senator Penny Wong (Labor SA), on that point, for her disingenuous words to the National Press Club, while debating Senator Bernardi (Liberal SA), that nothing will really change with same-sex marriage.

Is a fine of up to $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding an example of nothing changing? Why should cake makers be forced to bake a cake for a function they find conflicts with their faith? Why should people be forced to cater for an event they feel uncomfortable about?

Apparently Wong thinks that people being financially crippled, driven out of business and humiliated, for not supporting other people’s causes, is an example of nothing changing!

The Safe Schools program is dealt with as for what it is-a dangerous piece of social manipulation. The mood of ‘if you feel you are, then you are’ is debunked for the ideological nonsense it is. The author reveals, clearly, it is no anti bullying campaign but rather an exercise in gender bending by activists.

Like John Howard, the author clearly believes such a program should be consigned to the garbage bin. In contrast, the Andrews Government in Victoria embraces it while the Federal Government has just tinkered with reforms.

Dr van Gend makes it clear that asking 11 year olds to imagine that they are 16 year olds and going out with a person of the same sex, that you are ‘really into’ is inappropriate education. So too is directing them to a site advertising sado-masochistic workshops; to areas that are clearly LGBT pornographic sites; to advise them of hiding such sites from parents; whose associated sites encourage chest binding and penis tucking to disguise unwanted sexual characteristics; that frowns on the terms ‘boys’ and ‘girls,’ instead teaching that gender is fluid and to be explored along a rainbow spectrum (p90).

All this is of course part of the Marxist milieu that the Italian Communist, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) yearned for–to smash the traditional family unit that is based on Judaeo-Christian traditions, (and others), popular culture and folklore.

Gramsci's Australian disciples are happy to attempt to emulate him.

In challenging them, Dr van Gend, like a latter day Martin Luther, has nailed his thesis to their doors and challenged society to walk in a better direction.