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Family groups meet in Africa for global fight against marriage equality

Family groups meet in Africa for global fight against marriage equality

Conservative family groups have met in Cape Town, South Africa, to collaborate on strategies to stop any more countries allowing same sex couple access to marriage. The representatives from a wide range of groups signed a declaration vowing to fight against marriage rights being extended to people who are in gay relationships. The Cape Town […]

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Ashers Bakery in Northern Ireland loses appeal of discrimination case

Ashers Bakery in Northern Ireland loses appeal of discrimination case

Ashers Bakery in the United Kingdom have lost their appeal in a court case that found they had discriminated against a man by refusing to make a cake that had a pro-marriage equality message. Bakery owners Daniel and Amy McArthur refused to make a cake for Gareth Lee, a member of an LGBT advocacy group […]

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Printer refuses to print Dr David van Gend’s new book

Printer refuses to print Dr David van Gend’s new book

Dr David van Gend, the President of the Australian Marriage Forum, has hit a speed hump publishing his new book. The printer contracted by his publisher has refused to print the publication. Dr van Gend’s book Stealing from a Child: The injustice of marriage equality sets out  opposition to allowing same sex couples to wed. Publisher […]

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Australian Christian Lobby: ABC should keep rainbow politics out of ‘Play School’

Australian Christian Lobby: ABC should keep rainbow politics out of ‘Play School’

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has called on Communication Minister Mitch Fifeld to encourage the ABC to stop exposing children to “rainbow politics” after the children’s show ‘Play School‘ featuring a segment with same sex parents. ACL spokesperson Wendy Francis said children should not be exposed to images of two men raising a daughter, “As a grandmother […]

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Australian Marriage Forum suggest this is the last Mother’s Day

Australian Marriage Forum suggest this is the last Mother’s Day

The Australian Marriage Forum have argued that today might be the last time Australians celebrate marriage equality due to the high probability of marriage equality being introduced in the near future. In a post titled ‘Is this our last Mother’s Day?’, the “Think of the Child” group suggests that if Labor win the federal election […]

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David van Gend argues that Emperor Nero’s model of marriage has returned

David van Gend argues that Emperor Nero’s model of marriage has returned

David van Gend, the President of the Australian Marriage Forum, has authored an article for ‘The Australian‘ comparing the current legal action in Tasmania against the Catholic church to the execution of Christians by Roman Emperor Nero. Sharing the story of the Roman leader from 64 A.D. Dr van Gend said the disaster of the […]

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Is it OK to choose not to run an advertisement?

Is it OK to choose not to run an advertisement?

OPINION The Marriage Alliance got me thinking. Sophie York, the spokesperson for the newly formed lobby group that argues against allowing same sex couples to be married, was complaining that some television stations had refused to run the group’s advertisements. The TV advertisements depicted same sex marriage as a giant iceberg for the Titanic to […]

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Australian Marriage Forum declare “Find. Another. Name”

Australian Marriage Forum declare “Find. Another. Name”

The Australian Marriage Forum have taken out full page advertisement in today’s edition of ‘The Australian’ for their punctuation happy ‘Find. Another. Name.’ campaign.   The campaign argues that allowing marriage between same sex couples forces children to be discriminated. “Marriage gives every child a Mum and a Dad. ‘gay marriage’ makes that impossible.” the […]

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Look Out! Marriage iceberg ahead!

Look Out! Marriage iceberg ahead!

A new voice has appeared in Australia’s long running debate about marriage equality. The new group The Marriage Alliance has launched a big budget media campaign arguing that allowing same sex couples to wed is the “just the tip of the iceberg”. The advertisement begins with a hand drawing a picture of an iceberg while a […]

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Bolt: Did SBS Ban Marriage Ad Because CEO is Gay?

Bolt: Did SBS Ban Marriage Ad Because CEO is Gay?

  Channel Ten’s Andrew Bolt has continued his criticism of SBS banning an advertisement from the Australian Marriage Forum asking if SBS staff refused the ad because their CEO is gay? On his weekly program Bolt called on SBS management to clearly explain why they had refused to run the advertisement from the Australian Marriage […]

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