Family First calls for gentle debate
Following the shooting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Family First NSW has called on politicians to stop making vitriolic statements.
“Many have pointed out the contribution of citizens, radio talkback commentators and politicians who have raised the political rhetoric to become more and more poisonous and personal, to public outrages by mentally ill people,” Family First NSW leader Dr Gordon Moyes MLC said.
“What is happening in Australia is just as alarming. The most popular radio talkback people are the extreme right-wingers. A number have already been before various tribunals for racist or inflammatory comments.”
“Some politicians are just as bad, releasing a constant stream of press releases against Muslims, asylum seekers, Indian students and other minorities.”
In January 2010, Moyes called denying same-sex couples full adoption rights “a victory for families” and wrote, “No matter how he dresses and how competent in the kitchen he may be or what he calls himself, Mrs Doubtfire can never be the same as the children’s own mother”.
In May the same year Moyes told Parliament, “Relationships are notoriously brief in the homosexual male lifestyle, and are rarely exclusive even then.
“It is clear that when homosexuals talk about ‘marriage’ they are not talking about what society has traditionally defined and valued as marriage — being based on a foundation of a lifelong commitment and the expectation, more often than not, of raising a family. Such marriage is a social good of great value … homosexuals, generally speaking, are not talking about that at all.”
And in an April article on surrogacy titled, “Mothers and fathers replaced by homosexuals on UK birth certificates”, Moyes wrote that to “falsify birth records knowingly is an evil that has been reached by the small increments of skewed thinking by the social engineers trying to make a place for same-sex couples where there is no place.
“In their eagerness to be fair to homosexuals the social engineers have perpetrated a great injustice on the established order of mothers, fathers, and children. And they are not finished yet with their work.”
Moyes told the Star Observer these comments were not discriminatory and did not contradict his call for gentler debate.
“I support what I said then. There were no threats in what I wrote, no vitriol and no homophobic hatred. My comments were a strong statement of my opinion,” he said.
“These are politely expressed views. Other people may have different views to mine and that is their right.”
Similar words were expressed initially by the Nazis……. Then we saw the truth………
These nutters need to be exposed for what they are – extremists, just like Bin Laden…. And like Bin Laden have no place in a modern Australia……
If it “wasn’t” that is.
If it was for social engineering, we’d be living in caves and eating raw mammoth.
I’m in favour of social engineering if it means a society where gays like me are treated like human beings – as opposed to a backward and primitive society where I would “have no place” as Moyes puts it.
We have terrorist in Australia. They are operating as Christian Fundamentalist hate groups. They seek the destruction of the Australian Community through a constant barrage of hate attacks. They try to put together lynch mobs to run riot against Muslims in Cronulla. They have no problem calling us an abomination and encouraging others to kill us. What else do you do to an abomination? They have all the vulgarity of the Nazi Party. They are trying to create political change through violence. Do not underestimate the rhetoric. Words such as an Abomination, Unnatural, against the Natural Order, promiscuous, children are not safe with us, is a language of hate. It might not be on the scale of a plane going into a building, but do not underestimate the impact of these hate groups. They are killing us. Hate crimes against us are up and so are the hate speeches. There is an increase in those of us killed simply for existing.
Millions of Christians around the world support and advocate for Same-Sex Marriage. They are Bishops, Priest, Scholars, Nuns, arch Bishop’s, Reverends, Ministers of many denominations, and people who simply attend church. It is important to remember this when tiny religious groups try say they represent all Christians such as the Australian Christian Lobby-they do not.
I recall a Family First candidate who said lesbians should be burnt alive. I recall many speeches, I see a pattern with Family First.
If we are the country of a fair go, then we need justice against terrorist. There is a link between hate speeches and killings, and we need to hold both the person who encourages killing, and the person who carried out the killing, to account for their crimes against Australia. We need stronger laws that do this.