LGBTQI+ advocates are stifling debate about conversion therapy
By James Parker, Mercatornet
At first glance, Sydney’s celebration of WorldPride 2023 might seem harmless. However, the love that dared not speak its name now has no intention of remaining silent.
Beneath the smokescreen of glitter and gaiety lies gratuitous messaging which, although claiming to reap good, creates a seedbed for increased harm against some of Australia’s victims of childhood sexual abuse.
Everyone who is anyone in the LGBTQI+ world has descended upon Australia. One of these is Jayne Ozanne, a British evangelical Anglican who describes herself as “unashamedly gay, unashamedly Christian”. According to her website, she campaigns to “safeguard LGBTQ people from abuse … prejudice and discrimination”. She also chairs the Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition.
Ozanne’s visit to Australia has taken her across the vast nation to encourage religious groups to finish what state and territorial governments in Queensland, the ACT and Victoria have already established – an outright ban on anyone receiving therapeutic help, advice, or even prayer in places, linked to human sexuality and gender dysphoria, unless of course the action being offered is wholly affirming of queer identities in line with LGBTQ doctrine.