Call for paid discrimination

Call for paid discrimination

The Australian Family Association (AFA) and the National Marriage Coalition have called for married heterosexuals to be paid cash bonuses for staying together, while opposing any recognition or reward for same-sex couples who do the same.

AFA vice-president Mary-Louise Fowler, told ABC Radio it was wrong heterosexual married couples who did not divorce were treated in the same way as everyone else and deserved a “marriage bonus” for staying together.

“Why not reward people who stick at it?” Fowler said. “We know it’s not easy to stick at it.

“We’re all fallen human beings and we tend to argue and all sorts of things happen.”

Australian Marriage Equality’s Peter Furness said a cash pay-off was an awful reason for two people to stay together.

“Money is no basis for keeping a relationship together whether you are married or not,: he said.

“I’m all for the government assisting relationships — we have a great organisation, Relationships Australia that does that — but a cash bonus seems appalling.”
The Australian Family Association last week hosted a dinner commemorating the ban on same-sex marriage in Australia — which they want the Government to rename Australian Marriage Day and so that it can be celebrated every year.

Furness said the campaign to have the anniversary of a discriminatory piece of legislation into a national day celebration was in “extremely poor taste”.

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3 responses to “Call for paid discrimination”

  1. I don’t think of the Australian Family Association as a religious organisation or a political lobby group. I think of them more as a gigantic vat of decaying pig’s offal.

  2. I think Kevin Andrews and the Liberal Party would only offer this to white Christian hetrosexual people. We saw the disgusting treatment the Liberal gave to Muslim Doctors locking them up with no evidence, leaking lies to the media about them, and refusing their right to see a solicitor.

    The Liberal Party is clearly a distructive force in Australia, not only to people from our community but the wider public.

    What else do you expect from the Party of haters.

    As for the Australian Christian Lobby it is a company owned by just three people. You cannot join them at all. I think they lost the plot a long time ago becomming a Lobby Group of hate. Many good Christians I know are very angry they use the Chrsitian name and would prefer they use the Klu Klux Klan instead as they think their policies are more aligned with them.

  3. AFA may not have succeeded in getting money for staying married, but the Australian Christian Lobby’s website (August 14) boasts about the Coalition commitment that, if elected, they will provide $200 vouchers for couples getting married to encourage them to use marriage education, counselling or parenting programs.

    Speaking at an annual National Marriage Day celebration dinner last Thursday night (August 12) the Shadow Minister for Families, Kevin Andrews, announced the new policy to support and strengthen Australian marriages.

    In a media release about the new policy, Liberal Senator Guy Barnett, said the vouchers would be redeemable before or after the wedding, for an approved marriage education, counselling or parenting service.