Same-sex marriage creates more commitment? Wait and see
by Michael Cook, MercatorNet:
Australian politicians predict more love and more commitment. Let’s measure it.
Same-sex marriage is now legal in Australia. After the bill passed the House of Representatives last night – without any amendments to protect religious freedoms or parental rights – Governor-General Peter Cosgrove signed it today, giving “royal assent”.
The first same-sex weddings will take place on January 9.
The final vote in the House of Representatives was overwhelming, with only four MPs voting No and only nine abstaining. In both the House and the Gallery there were cheers and hugs, and a chorus of a song by the Seekers, “I am Australian”, which has become a hymn to diversity.
It was a joyous celebration of “marriage equality”, according to its supporters.
Here at MercatorNet, we have consistently opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage, in Australia and elsewhere. It wasn’t out of nostalgic traditionalism.
We believe that same-sex marriage deprives children of the love of their natural mother or father. We believe that a home with a mother and father is the best place to raise children.
We predict that the ideology of “marriage equality” will become part of mandated school curricula. We predict that the new law will strengthen the transgender movement and its potential for destroying the lives of vulnerable children. We predict that supporters will use the law to silence dissent. We predict that religious freedoms will be eroded. We predict that commercial surrogacy will be legalised, which is an egregious abuse of women’s rights.
Alas! A majority of the electorate did not buy these arguments in the plebiscite. Australia’s politicians were even more sceptical.
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