Australia may legalize gay ‘marriage,’ and the media won’t let conservatives speak

Aug 18, 2017 by Jill

by Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSite:

The Australian Guardian newspaper will not print arguments against same-sex “marriage” that its editor finds “spurious.”

Australia is holding a voluntary survey on same-sex “marriage” this autumn, beginning in September. If the postal ballots indicate a “Yes” vote, the government will introduce a private member’s bill making same-sex “marriage” a legal entity. If they return a “No” vote, their legality will be challenged by “same-sex” marriage activists.

Two attempts by the Liberal-National Coalition government to have a national referendum on the issue have been rejected by the Australian Senate, most recently on August 9.

As the marriage debate divides Australia, the impartiality of the press is itself under scrutiny. Mark Maley, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s editorial manager, reminded ABC employees to maintain neutrality on the issue and to refer to the issue as “same-sex marriage” rather than “marriage equality.”

That policy led Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun to note, “ABC’s staff is so biased about same-sex ‘marriage’ that even an ABC boss finally tells them to can it.” According to Bolt, ABC is paid $1 billion in Australian tax money a year to be impartial, but in reality “it has been hijacked by the left.”

The Australian edition of the Guardian is less concerned about neutrality. Editor Lenore Taylor stated that her paper will not give “equal time to spurious arguments against marriage equality.”

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