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Wendy Francis joins ACL

By on March 13, 2011

Past Queensland Family First Senate candidate Wendy Francis has been appointed the new Queensland director of the Australian Christian Lobby.

Francis was embroiled in a Twitter controversy last year when she likened gay marriage to “legalising child abuse”.

In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Francis also likened children born to same-sex parented families to the stolen generations.

“It is one thing to be homosexual; it’s another thing altogether to then impose that on children,” she told the newspaper.

Following a backlash, Francis blamed a miscommunication with staff for the comments, but later accepted them as her own and issued an apology.

Perth mother Kelly Pilgrim Byrne, who is in a same-sex relationship, lodged an anti-discrimination complaint with the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission claiming Francis’ comments were homophobic.

According to the ACL website, Francis is a former editor of the Queensland Baptist Magazine.

“I have always believed strongly in the need for Christians to influence politics and believe ACL’s non-partisan expression of that is a most effective way to achieve that,” Francis said.

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9 Comments

  1. DGrace

    March 13, 2011 at 3:26 pm


    She is just another rightwingnut, to add to the long list of them in this country. You know, gays are bad, climate change is a lie but “god” really does exist yadda yadda yadda.
    Pity she never mentioned the actual child abuse perpetrated by heterosexthuals that we must read about and witness in the media on a weekly basis as opposed to her imagined and hateful nonsense and utter lies.

  2. Peter In Brisbane

    March 14, 2011 at 6:26 am


    She will defend her Christian beliefs to the death preferably yours.

  3. David Skidmore

    March 14, 2011 at 8:00 am


    Another example of shit floating to the top.

  4. Dave

    March 14, 2011 at 9:23 am


    I can see how Wendy Francis from Family First would be attracted to the Australian Christian Lobby, the private company made up of just three directors. It seems to me you have to be a Taliban style hater to work for the Australian Christian Lobby and seek the destruction of the Australian society.

    If they got all in the Australian Christian Lobby together, you could fill two Church pews. In addition many Christians are outraged by the arrogance of the name The Australia Christian Lobby, as time and time again they say they are not Christian and do not represent them.

    If anything, the Australian Christian Lobby is a tiny cult. The real question is what are polticians doing with such cults?

  5. Sean

    March 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm


    “It is one thing to be a Christian; it’s another thing altogether to then impose that on children”.

    - Yet it happens all the time.

    Look how that sentence appears with one little word changed. Imagine the uproar if a gay person in public life were to make this comment! And it would be the ACL who would scream loudest. They are hypocrits from an evil cult and not true Christians.

  6. David Skidmore

    March 16, 2011 at 11:02 am


    Is it right for a woman to take a leadership role in a Christian organisation? I thought God didn’t like that sort of thing.

  7. Wally

    March 16, 2011 at 9:46 pm


    Dave, so being gay is not a cult??

  8. David Skidmore

    March 17, 2011 at 10:49 am


    Wally, no it’s sexual orientation. Do you understand the difference?

  9. tim

    June 1, 2011 at 8:02 pm


    pathetic. wants to spend money put chaplains in public schools and condemning homosexuals…. She is worse than hitlser

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