New Australian book on marriage hits censorship roadblock
by Michael Cook, MercatorNet:
Why are gay marriage supporters afraid to debate?
One of today’s Australian headlines is “We can already see how a ‘debate’ about love will lead to violence and hate”. The article was written after a bomb threat to an LGBT FM station in Melbourne by a strong supporter of same-sex marriage and vehement opponent of a plebiscite.
However, there may a grain of truth in her prediction, judging from the way doctor, activist and author David van Gend has been treated.
Dr van Gend, a general practitioner from Toowoomba, is the author of the just-published book Stealing from a Child: the Injustice of ‘Marriage Equality’. He makes a strong case for traditional marriage, attacks the “genderless agenda” and critiques the push for gay marriage. He describes it as “a manifesto in defense of society’s inviolable foundation: Father, Mother, Child”.
I read an advance copy. Van Gend has firm ideas, but expresses them respectfully and insults no one.
So he was quite surprised when the printer contacted the publisher, Connor Court Press, on the evening before the book was launched to announce that the company would not fill the order. “Due to the subject matter and content of your book, unfortunately I have been instructed by senior management not to proceed with printing this title,” the publisher was told.
If Connor Court had not had been prudent enough to run off a couple of thousand digital copies, the carefully planned book launch would have collapsed. “This was a shock,” says Dr Van Gend, “because you don’t expect a printing firm to act as a political censor for the gay lobby.”
But this was act of sabotage number 3 for Van Gend.
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