Nile moves to ban same-sex couple adoption

Nile moves to ban same-sex couple adoption

The Rev. Fred Nile has sought leave to move a bill to roll back the right of gays and lesbians to adopt in NSW on only his fourth day back in the Parliament.

On May 5, Nile moved, “that leave be given to bring in a bill for an Act to amend the Adoption Act 2000 to repeal the amendments made by the Adoption Amendment (Same Sex Couples) Act 2010 that enable couples of the same sex to adopt children; and for other purposes,” having given notice of the bill the previous day.

Nile previously attempted to ban same-sex couples from adopting in 2004 – before they gained the right to do so.

The bill was just one of thirteen the Christian Democratic Party leader sought leave to move on the day, with others aiming to outlaw prostitution, raise the drinking age to 21, ban full face coverings in public, establish a Family Impact Commission to vet proposed legislation, ban ethics classes as an alternative to scripture, and to rename members of the Legislative Council as “State Senators”.

However with Premier Barry O’Farrell and the former premier Kristina Keneally both telling a pre-election Australian Christian Lobby forum that they would not roll back the right of same-sex couples to adopt, Nile is unlikely to succeed with his adoption ban bill.

Nile also tabled a petition against same sex adoption which had been signed by less than 170 people.

On the same day Greens MLC Kate Faehrmann sought leave to move a motion calling on the Legislative Assembly to legalise same-sex marriage under state law if the Federal Government failed to act by the end of the year.

The motion read, “this House notes that: there is overwhelming public support for marriage equality in Australia; a growing number of jurisdictions overseas have legislated for marriage equality including the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Spain, Canada and South Africa; constitutional law expert Professor George Williams has advised that marriage equality laws can be enacted by the states, and the Australian Greens’ Marriage Equality (Amendment) Bill 2010 is currently before the Federal Parliament.”

“In the event that the Federal Parliament fails to legislate for marriage equality in 2011, this House calls on the New South Wales Government to legislate to allow marriage between adults in New South Wales regardless of sexual orientation, sex and gender identity.”

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19 responses to “Nile moves to ban same-sex couple adoption”

  1. What’s the current story with this? According to Austlii, a legal information database, it says the Adoption Amendment (Same Sex Couples) Act 2010 has been repealed, does that mean that for the time being, same sex couples cannot adopt?

  2. Fuck off Fred ……

    Poor Fred vile and his festival of lies!

    “The children of same-sex parents whose rights would be trampled by Nile’s devious plan to strip them of their parentage in pursuit of his misguided crusade to impose his Christaliban values on the people of NSW.”

    Is that so? But it is OK to impose your selfish values on the rest of society. Talk about bigotry of the first order.

  3. Oh Banks what cave did you come out of?

    If we follow your example, women would never be in the workforce, and Aboriginal people would not be allowed to vote.

    There have been thousands of Australians that have had Same-Sex attracted parents. Even Christian Charities seek them out people in the GLBTI community to raise children! Go visit Anglicare or another Christian Charity. So put aside your prejudices and take a look at the reality of life in Australia. Go visit some Gay Dad’s groups for instance!

    Further I live in a country area and some kids have two mum’s and no person cares, let alone my friends in the cities. The reality is very different to you version of events not knowing any kids with same-sex parents.

    And what of all those children adopted, are they to spend their life in an institution and never know the love of a family? I mean really get over it and move on, the community has. You would think we are all mass murderers the way you carry on with your stigma.

  4. Jake: The children you speak of sound very young. Wait until their friends have at least a year of Sunday school when their minds will be filled with rubbish (not including what their parents would teach them / say Gen X parents are NOT all accepting of gays and they are somewhat irresponsible for their parenting).

    Brendan: I still stand my ground when I say it’s too early for people to be of accepting of things such as same sex parenting as it puts the children in a vulnerable position i.e Having to deal with the hate for having gay parents.

    We live in a world where our media, TV shows and religion depict gays as non serious and “unusual” from the norm – we need to target the areas where the majority is getting their information/ideals from (TV/MEDIA ETC ETC) of gay people and change that first. Once we are seen and portrayed as normal like everyone else, people will see us more naturally THEN argue the point to have same sex parenting/marriage etc this way our kids will not have to suffer the epic bullying thus taking THEM out of the fight.

  5. Nile is a complete bastard when it comes to samesex matters. He will always be our no 1 enemy – as bad as George Pell.therelevespe

  6. @ Banks – why does this argument continue to be posed as though the problem lies with the families being discriminated against, and not those doing the discriminating?
    If you really cared about the discrimination the children of gay parents might be subjected to, you would be arguing strongly against those who seek to diminish the rights of these families. Where the law states that discrimination is ok, discrimination on a personal level is legitimised.

  7. @ banks. My son went to school in western Sydney with two “lesbian” parents and then one lesbian and one who came out and began transition from female to male.

    My son not once received a hard time about it. None of the kids cared and neither did the parents or school.

    My daughter is in kindergarten and I am serving as a reading helper in her class as a transgender person with the full support of the school and I’m friends with many parents and no one cares.

    It is a fear that this will happen, not a reality that they will be discriminated against.

  8. Banks asks, “Please can someone think about the children?”.

    *Of course* we should think of the children. The children of same-sex parents whose rights would be trampled by Nile’s devious plan to strip them of their parentage in pursuit of his misguided crusade to impose his Christaliban values on the people of NSW.

    Nile’s ideology is an abomination, a disease and unnatural, instrinsically disordered, and a voluntary lifestyle choice that can in no way be approved.

    Banks, you merely pander to his bigotry by sympathising with his malignant cause.

  9. There are many conservative which do not support his views on this.

    Is there not a difference between the words ‘marriage’ and ‘civil unionships’? If so, most of those countries only have ‘civil unions’.

    To keep the expressions ballanced, I need to point out: The majority of court rulings in the US, all in the UK, have all came up with ‘there is no case to answer to:I.E. gays do not have the right to marry’, and 31 US states all have referendums in which all 31 resulted in a constitutional ban on SSM.

    I like his proposed ban on ‘full face coverings’, but otherwise he does not speak for me.

  10. I’m not a Nile supporter at all but I feel for children who have same sex parents.

    Unless they go to a school in the inner west / Surry hills areas their lives will be hell in the school yard and neighbourhood.

    I think we need to wait longer to be all for this sort of thing 100% maybe in generations to come things like same sex parents will be the norm.

    Right now it may seem like we are fighting for our freedoms FOR future generations but with this issue we are putting innocent children in the fight as well.

    Please can someone think about the children?

  11. i have gay friends that i love and respect greatly for the people that they are, so keep in mind that i choose my words very carefully:

    Fred Nile, you’re a massive fag

  12. Poor Fred vile and his festival of lies! Goose-stepping all over our Parliament, imposing his highly suspect bible blackness on all freedom loving pillow-biters. Forever steamed up over sex and his paranoia with Gay’s.

    Poor Fred already lives in his own private hell confusing sex with sin.

    Most of you cannot remember what this dangerous, finger-likin-funda advocated for Gay’s decades ago.

    “Incarcerate HIV sufferers and other deviants on an Island away from the rest of the community”.

    Poor Fred wants to legislate against floods and bushfires.

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