ENDEAVOUR FORUM NEWSLETTER No. 139, August 2010

 

 

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GOOD BUY, GOOD GUYS

While the hapless Kevin Rudd walks off bleeding into the sunset, dagger still planted firmly in his back, there was another nasty ambush not so long ago by the Julia Gillard faction. Warwick Marsh, founder of the Fatherhood Foundation and Dads4Kids was appointed an Ambassador for Men's Health, and then sacked by Health Minister Nicola Roxon. She discovered he had published a booklet "21 Reasons Why Gender Matters" which expressed the view that men and women are different, that they are complementary in forming families and raising children, and that sex differences are a cause for celebration, not denial. Writers in the booklet also expressed the view that homosexual acts carried physical and psychological health risks.

Although Labor MPs were invited to the launch of the booklet in Parliament House, Canberra, and some did attend, once the homosexual lobby read the booklet, Warwick's days were numbered. He was sacked and Julia Gillard's de facto boyfriend, hairdresser Tim Mathieson was appointed in his place. So fathers and dads are out, in the brave new world of our ALP Government, and live-in boyfriends are the trendy new fashion accessory. Emily's List in action....

Emily's List is generally indifferent to marriage, but enthusiastic about marriage for homosexuals. Emily's List is indifferent to babies (hostile to those in the womb) but
very supportive of assisted reproductive technology (IVF) so that homosexuals can have babies "of their own". Emily's List candidates are also in favour of subsidizing fees in child care centres, but opposed to mothers who care for their own children receiving equivalent payments. As feminist writer, Simone de Beavoir and Elizabeth Reid, Australia's first Women's Adviser, said: "Mothers should not be authorised to stay at home or too many would make that choice". So much for the feminist claim to be "pro-choice".

How strange that the feminist and homosexual lobbies which exert a dominating influence on the Labor Party are always prattling on about "diversity", but cannot tolerate the most fundamental diversity of all, that human beings come in two kinds, male and female. "LGBT" are the code letters for the feminist/homosexual cabal, Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgendered. Notice how they do not include the letters "H" for heterosexual or "M" and "F" for male and female.

Julia Gillard's indifference to the plight of boys and men was evident in 2000 when Alan Barron and I gave evidence to a House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Workplace Relations. The Committee was examining the educational disadvantages experienced by boys and we pointed out that it was not only in education that boys were falling well behind girls, but that all life statistics such as life expectancy, rates of imprisonment etc. showed that men were a disadvantaged group. Julia reacted wth hostility to this evidence and cross-examined us as if we were the accused in the dock rather than concerned citizens providing the government with information. I wrote a letter of complaint at the time to Brendan Nelson, then Minister for Education and Chair
of the Committee.

It is a pity that the Coalition were not more supportive of Warwick Marsh, and that he was also let down by the Australian Christian Lobby. Their Canberra representative, Lyle Shelton, spoke supportively at the launch of "Why Gender Matters", but once Nicola Roxon sacked Warwick, ACL took down the booklet from their website and informed the local Labor MP in Warwick's electorate that they had done so. When asked for an explanation by several of the writers (including me) in "Why Gender Matters", Jim Wallace, Managing Director of ACL said he had five concerns about the booklet, but despite repeated requests from
many of us, has not told us what these concerns are.

Australian Christian Lobby has made a determined effort to be "non-partisan" between the Coalition and the ALP, particularly in their webcasts in 2007 between John Howard and Kevin Rudd and in 2010 between Rudd and Tony Abbott. They did not allow any questions on abortion, which would have highlighted the differences between Rudd who voted for RU 486 and funds abortion in Australia's overseas aid, and Howard who has always voted pro-life. At the time Rudd decided to fund abortion in our overseas aid, Jim Wallace thundered “We will remember this”, but he showed no sign of remembering it at the 2010 webcast where he treated Rudd with great deference (arm around his back as he ushered him off the podium - reminscent of Paul Keating with the Queen...) It will be somewhat amusing, but sad to see how ACL manages to be "non-partisan" between the Christian, married, pro-life pro-family Opposition leader, Tony Abbott who tells his daughters that sex before marriage is not a great idea, and the pro-abortion Emily's List founder, Julia Gillard, who has declared she has no religious belief and lives with her boyfriend.

 

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