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Marriage Alliance Iceberg

The Australian Marriage Alliance are persevering with their campaign that compares same sex marriage to the Titanic disaster.

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Just this week flyers targeting the Chinese community have been distributed throughout Northbridge.

The campaign said that allowing same sex marriage will force schools to teach students about same sex behaviour or face the full force of anti-discrimination laws.

The Marriage Alliance launched earlier this year with a TV campaign that compared same sex marriage to the Titanic disaster. The conservative group complained when TV networks declined to play the advertisement. Television and radio stations, including Perth’s MIX94.5 were criticised for airing the spot.

The ABC’s ‘Media Watch‘ program highlighted networks that declined the advertisement and said pro-traditional marriage advocates, including Sophie York from the Marriage Alliance, were not receiving equal coverage to marriage equality advocates.

Earlier this week at the Senate Estimates hearings back-bencher Eric Abetz raised the issue with the ABC’s Managing Director, Mark Scott.

Media outlet Crikey has noted that the proportion of coverage on the ABC roughly aligns with public support on the issue.

While Buzzfeed journalist Lane Sainty highlighted that she’d offered the Marriage Alliance an interview 17 times and not gotten any response. OUTinPerth’s offer to the Marriage Alliance were also not responded to despite many calls and emails.

In September, the Marriage Alliance launched a second campaign supporting traditional marriage to coincide with Father’s Day. The group claimed that children without fathers in their lives were more likely to drop out of school, and faced a greater chance of going to prison or becoming rapists.

The figures used in this campaign were shown to be largely outdated, misrepresented and inaccurate.

Graeme Watson

 

 

 

 

 

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