The first anti marriage equality ad has aired on TV and it has nothing to do with marriage
The anti-LGBTI group Coalition for Marriage has released its first television ad campaigning for a ‘no’ vote in the upcoming marriage equality poll.
The ad doesn’t directly address marriage equality, instead taking a ‘think of the children’ approach that conflates same-sex marriage with the Safe Schools program.
The ad claims that “parents have lost their right to choose” in countries with marriage equality, and one parent claims her son was told he could wear a dress to school.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has slammed the ad as “total rubbish” and blamed Malcolm Turnbull for allowing it, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
Shorten called the ad “offensive and hurtful to LGBTI Australians and their families”.
“This is exactly what was predicted when Malcolm Turnbull decided to waste $122 million on a postal survey,” he said.
“He gave the green light to this rubbish.
“This is not freedom of speech. This is freedom to hurt. I just want to tell LGBTI families that they are not on their own. Most people know this is total rubbish.”
Executive director of the Equality Campaign, Tiernan Brady, called the ad “disgraceful and dishonest”.
“The people behind this ad know that the Australian people are all for allowing all Australians the right to marry, so they have resorted to misleading people, to pretend this is about something else,” he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqXLfp2sFHQ
I just feel how funny it is for those who are trying so hard to come up with a piece of shit like the ad and fight so bloody “hard” to go against. Apparently, they are being careful and doing it like beat around the bush – where is the sense of being direct in Australia? this made me laugh. Other than this, the person/team that decided to use the approach of “think of children” are simply ignorant – do they know children know a lot of things before even they get told what it is? do they know children are independent individuals with their own way of making a judgement regardless of limited expressions? do they know it is awful to simply “use” children as a tool to achieve the goal in response to what they believe in? Whenever there is a purpose before something is done, the person is very clearly – Simply be kind and simply be true to yourself, the world will be a better place. A good advice for those behind the ad production: sort out your own issues in your own life before getting in other people’s way and wasting your precious lifetime.
“We checked with all the teachers; it never happened,” John Albiston said.
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/it-never-happened-principal-denies-mums-tv-claim-that-son-could-wear-dress-20170830-gy6ygk.html
The complete lack of reasons for opposing marriage equality just belies the awful reality. Lots of Australians regard gay people as second class citizens and their opposition to this is about feeling superior. It reminds me of Gene Hackman’s speech to Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, just replace black people with gay people. If you can’t feel superior to a gay person, who can you feel superior to?