Anti-LGBTI campaigner Marijke Rancie elected to the Victorian Liberal Party
Blogger Marijke Rancie, also known as ‘Political Posting Mumma’, has been elected to a delegate position in the Victorian Liberal Party.
Rancie is known as a vocal anti-LGBTI campaigner.
She appeared in last year’s ‘It’s okay to say no’ advertisements against marriage equality, and was involved with the recent march in Melbourne against the Safe Schools program.
Rancie is one of five Mormons that were elected to positions in the Victorian Liberal Party at last week’s state conference, The Age has reported.
In her campaign statement she described her self as a “lobbyist against the appalling Marxist Safe Schools programs”, which she has elsewhere accused of “grooming” children.
The Department of Education has said a number of Rancie’s claims about the Safe Schools program are false.
Also elected to the party was Dr Ivan Stratov, an infectious diseases specialist who has previously been involved in the Family First Party.
Stratov last year appeared at a Bendigo forum against Safe Schools, where he blamed HIV on poor morals.
“I studied a disease called HIV; 35 million people have died from that disease because they all decided they were going to make man’s love, not God’s love,” he reportedly said.
More moderate Liberals have said they see last weekend’s result as a shift towards control of the party by conservatives, and that they fear progressive members may leave the party.
The Liberal Party reportedly passed a number of motions affecting LGBTI people at the state conference, including one supporting a ban on the Safe Schools program and another supporting the Nordic model of effectively banning sex work.
Well this progressive member left a long time ago. I stupidly thought you could make change from within, but the LNP is stultified by the conservatives who do not live up to the name “Liberal”.
The Liberal Party should long ago have changed its name to either the Conservatives or the Tory party. Of course these days they are so ultra-right that they might just as well be called the Extremist party.
Homophobia is a disease that many people suffer from and many of them are in the party of the right. The trouble is that so many people will not see the wood for the trees and are blinded to the fact that these people do so much harm to our communities. Just refer to the murders of gay and lesbian people in Sydney – and elsewhere – in the 80s, 90s and currently.
Our communities should feel safe in the 21st century instead of suffering threats from all sides.
It comes as no great surprise to me You hve a party that spent 120 million to give us permission to marry John Howard didn’t ask me if I thought he should enshrine that marriage is between man and woman
This party has had blood on its hands before
Nothiong has changed
The whole point of liberal philosophy is that society works best when people are free to make their own decisions about their own lives. Live and let live. Freedom to make your own decisions about your life, freedom from unnecessary government interference. Of course you have to respect the freedoms of others too, but the aim is to find a balance where harms to society are minimised and freedom is maximised when it does no harm.
So let gay people be gay. How is this idiot affected by gay marriage? Why is society better if trans people are harassed by the ignorant? We already know that society is not better when racism abounds, or sexism or ageism, why is it better if it’s transphobic or homophobic?
The Liberal Party needs to get on top of these issues which are fundamental to its foundation philosophy. It’s not called the Conservative Party, why does it give a voice to those who oppose liberalism?