Australian ‘No’ mums hit back against bullying after ad against same-sex marriage airs and say they have been demonised for their views
by Charis Chang, News.com.au:
THE mothers featured in the “No” campaign ad against same-sex marriage say they have been “demonised” for defending their rights.
Heidi McIvor, who is a pastor at City Builders Church in Sale, Victoria appeared in the TV ad for Coalition for Marriage, which aired on Tuesday.
“Kids in year seven are being asked to role play being in a same-sex relationship,” Ms McIvor says in the ad.
Ms McIvor’s comment has sparked a backlash, with Ms McIvor and her husband Julian McIvor also falsely accused of being behind a newspaper ad that appeared in The Gippsland Times and entitled “What is Marriage?”
The ad includes the line that: “When the wife’s egg is fertilised by the husband’s sperm in the marital act of love, a flash of light occurs and a baby is conceived. Nine months later, ‘their’ baby is born. It is not ‘hers’ and it is not ‘his’. They have created new life together.”
One Facebook user of the couple said: “Let’s burn there (sic) church”.
It later emerged the couple did not place the ad and Ms McIvor has condemned the reaction to her television appearance.
“I am perplexed that the response to this ad hasn’t been to verify our claims or research what is happening to education and parents’ rights overseas,” she said in a statement to news.com.au.
“Instead it has been to delve into the personal and work lives of the women on this ad and use it to discredit us, demonising mothers for defending their rights.”
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