Posted on 09/09/2017 9:58:32 AM PDT by DeweyCA
Four years ago, amid much uncertainty, 400 British members of parliament voted to redefine marriage in the United Kingdom.
Then prime minister David Cameron announced that, despite having made no mention of the issue in his party’s pre-election manifesto, it would be MP’s who decided the fate of marriage.
Now, it’s Australia’s turn to choose. There’s one key difference. Unlike in Britain, it will be the people who decide.
Everyone agrees, whether they admit it or not. This is a decision of enormous significance.
Therefore, it seems sensible to analyse the consequences of the potential change, within nations in which redefinition has previously been carried out.
In the United Kingdom, it has become abundantly clear that redefinition has affected many people, across many spheres. At first glance, these spheres appeared distinct from marriage redefinition. However, subsequent changes, have proved that they are entirely intertwined.
Gender: Current Conservative Prime Minister, Theresa May, has revealed proposals to abolish the need for any medical consultation before gender reassignment. Simply filling out an official form will be sufficient. A ‘Ministry of Equalities’ press release, explicitly announced, that the proposals were designed to: ‘build on the progress’ of same-sex marriage. Guardian journalist Roz Kaveney boasted that changing your gender is now: ‘Almost as simple as changing your name by statutory declaration’.
Manifestations of the ‘British gender revolution’ are not difficult to find. Transport for London, have prohibited the use of the ‘heteronormative’ words, such as ladies and gentlemen. Meanwhile, universities across the nation are threatening to ‘mark down’ students, who continue to use the words ‘he’ and ‘she’. Instead, ‘gender neutral pronouns’ such as ‘ze’, must be uniformly applied.
Such gender-theory radicalism has delighted Stonewall, the UK’s largest LGBT lobby. Their Orwellian tagline: ‘Acceptance without exception’, can be seen plastered on posters and adverts. Politicians, attempt to ‘out-radical’ one another, in the race to be an original champion, in the next emancipatory front of ‘Trans-rights’.
Freedom of religion: Much was made in the UK, about supposed exemptions, designed to ensure that believers would always be allowed to stay true to their convictions.
Four years later, the very same people who made ‘heartfelt promises’, now work tirelessly to undermine them.
Equalities minister Justine Greening, has insisted that churches must be made to: ‘Keep up with modern attitudes’. Likewise, the Speaker of the House of Commons, a position supposedly defined by its political neutrality, had this to say: I feel we’ll only have proper equal marriage when you can bloody well get married in a church if you want to do so, without having to fight the church for the equality that should be your right’.
It became clear, during this year’s general election, just how militant the LGBT lobby have become, following marriage redefinition. The primary target was Tim Farron, leader of England’s third largest political party, the Liberal Democrats. High-profile journalists had heard that Farron was a practising Christian. In every single interview thereafter, they demanded to know. Did he personally believe homosexual sex to be a sin? He practically begged the commentariat, to allow him to keep his personal faith and legislative convictions separate. For decades, he pointed out, he had out vocally and legislatively supported the LGBT Lobby. Likewise, he had long backed same-sex marriage, voting for it enthusiastically. This simply was no longer enough.
Shortly after the election campaign, Farron resigned. He stated that it was now impossible, for a believing Christian to hold a prominent position in British politics.
In a heartbreaking development and in spite of Britain’s ‘foster crisis’, aspiring foster parents who identify as religious, face interrogation. Those who are deemed unlikely to ‘celebrate’ homosexuality, have had their dreams of parenthood scuppered. This month, Britain’s High Court, ruled that a Pentecostal couple were ineligible parents. While the court recognised their successful and loving record of adoption, they decreed that above all else: ‘The equality provisions concerning sexual orientation should take precedence’. How has Great Britain become so twisted? Practicing Jews, Muslims, Christians and Sikhs, who want to stay true to their religious teachings, can no longer adopt children.
Freedom of speech: In the lead-up to the Parliamentary vote, we witnessed almost incomprehensible bullying. David Burrows MP, a mild-mannered supporter of the ‘Coalition for Marriage’, had excrement thrown at his house. His children received death threats and their school address was published online. Similarly, ‘Conservative’ broadcaster Iain Dale promised to, ‘publicly out’ gay MP’s, who did not vote for redefinition.
Many hardworking Brits have lost their jobs. Consider Adrian Smith, sacked by a Manchester Housing Trust, for suggesting that the state: ‘shouldn’t impose its rules on places of faith and conscience’. Or Richard Page, fired for gross misconduct after articulating, that children might enjoy better outcomes, were they to be adopted by heterosexual couples.
Simultaneously, contrary to ‘steadfast’ government assurances, small businesses have been consistently targeted. Courts in Northern Ireland ruled that the Asher’s Family bakery had acted unlawfully. What crime committed by this tiny business? Politely declining to decorate a cake with a political message in support of same-sex marriage. The courts maintained that business owners must be compelled to promote the LGBT cause, irrespective of personal convictions.
Even the National Trust, a British institution with over 4.2 million members, has decided to join the bullying LGBT crusade. A message went out. Each of the Trust’s 62,000 volunteers, would be required to wear a compulsory same-sex rainbow badge. Those who said they’d rather not were told they would be ‘moved out of sight’until they were prepared to publicly demonstrate inclusive tolerance.
In retrospect, the silent majority in Britain remained silent for too long. Reflecting on redefinition, Ben Harris-Quinney, Chairman of the Bow Group think tank pondered that:‘Same-sex marriage was promoted in the UK, as an issue of supposed tolerance and equality. What we have seen, is the most unequal and intolerant outcomes of any political issue in recent history’.
Across the UK, ‘sex education’ has been transformed and disfigured. TV programmes, aimed at children as young as three, promote ‘gender fluidity’, as an enabler of thoughtfulness and individuality.
At the same time, Ministers have denied worried parents the right to withdraw their children from primary school classes. Meanwhile, ‘outside educators’ teach children about sex positions, ‘satisfying’ pornography consumption and how to masturbate. Concerns regarding STI’s and Promiscuity, are derided as ‘old-fashioned’.
Independent religious schools are under intense scrutiny. Dame Louise Casey, a senior government advisor, recently insisted that it is now: ‘Not Ok for Catholic schools to be homophobic and anti-gay marriage’. Ofsted, the body responsible for school-assessment, has been wildly politicised. In 2013, Prior to the redefinition of marriage, Ofsted visited Vishnitz Jewish Girls School. They passed the school with flying colours. In fact, they went out of their way to highlight the committed and attentive approach to student welfare and development. Four years later, Ofsted returned. This time, they failed the school on one issue alone. While again, noting that students were ‘confident in thinking for themselves‘, their report, pointed to the inadequate promotion of homosexuality and gender reassignment. As such, it was failing to ensure: ‘a full understanding of fundamental British values’. It is one of an initial seven faith schools that face closure.
I mentioned that I was writing this article to a good friend in the Conservative Party, back at home. He expressed his genuine concern. Had I not considered the consequences? Did I not realise that what I said in Australia could be found when I returned to the UK? ‘LGBT progress is an unstoppable tide’. He assured me, that it was ok for me to ‘privately’ believe that marriage was between one man and one woman. He even privately agreed, that the stuff being taught in primary schools was too much.
But to say it out loud? To actually have it in print? It would blight my career and my personal relationships.
Good God. How much more important the institution of marriage and freedom of thought, religion and speech. How much more important the future of our children, than any naïve career ambitions I might harbour.
I urge every Aussie to examine the evidence, analysis the results and be clear about what you’re voting for. If it was solely marriage, it would worth preserving.
It’s infinitely more.
Straight people were asked, "How is this going to affect your life?" And supposedly it wasn't going to affect anything. That is what the gays and their supporters in the media and Democrats told everyone. Those of us who said that it would affect us in many profound ways were ridiculed, mocked and labeled as homophobes. Leftists and Liberals LIE...almost all of the time.
>>What’s changed in Britain
You mean other than the lack of sanity?
From “we just want to be left alone” to tolerance to acceptance to forced indoctrination.
Straight people were asked, "How is this going to affect your life?" And supposedly it wasn't going to affect anything. That is what the gays and their supporters in the media and Democrats told everyone. Those of us who said that it would affect us in many profound ways were ridiculed, mocked and labeled as homophobes. Leftists and Liberals LIE...almost all of the time.
Thanks for this post. The homosexual lobby is all about hatred of what is pure and good. It will stop at nothing.
And don't try to argue that that's just conservative paranoia. Nowhere where faux marriage has been passed has it been the end point. It's just one more step in normalizing the abnormal and redefining reality.
IT WILL NOT STOP WITH HOMO "MARRIAGE."
You've been warned.
“Practicing Jews, Muslims, Christians and Sikhs, who want to stay true to their religious teachings, can no longer adopt children.”
I’m not so sure that Muslims will be prevented from adoption as they have a mostly-unique way of registering their ‘disagreement’ with policies they don’t necessarily support.
Well maybe Jews, Christians and Sikhs. All the Muslim has to do is make the slashing throat motion at the family court Judge and he/she will be bending over backwards to approve the adoption....
The view of this piece by the Left (and I’m not exaggerating) would be, and probably is, as follows:
“This piece needs to be pulled and the author needs a bit of helping in order to understand the definition of the term ‘inclusion’. There is absolutely no reason to allow debate with people so filled with hate.”
...that’s where we’re at.
>>Straight people were asked, “How is this going to affect your life?” And supposedly it wasn’t going to affect anything. That is what the gays and their supporters in the media and Democrats told everyone. Those of us who said that it would affect us in many profound ways were ridiculed, mocked and labeled as homophobes. Leftists and Liberals LIE...almost all of the time.
We were also told that the Lawrence v. Texas decision was strictly about consenting adults in private and that there was no “homosexual agenda” and that there would be no changes.
Now pre-K students are being instructed in the ways of transvestism and companies are being mandated to allow men who identify as women (yet retain a penis) to freely enter dressing rooms and showers set aside for women only. #BakeTheCakeOrElse
Lucky them. In the U.S. 5 people in black robes decided to overturn what 6,000,000,000 people know and have known for 15,000 years, i.e., homosexuality is not normal.
Even Kalifornia voted that marriage should be between one man and one woman. There, a single homosexual judge overturned the will of the people, which was concurred by the likes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The UK always was eat up with faggots
Minsitry of Equality ???????????
I thought they must be joking, I know Orwell warned us but I thought they would be afraid to go this far
but I was wrong England actually has a Ministry of Equality.
My guess is the next time a Democrat is elected president( a frightening idea) there will be a cabinet post ‘Secretary of Equality’. Good reason to work against letting Democrats return to power.
Thanks for posting.
“We don’t want any special treatment! We just want to be treated like anyone else! Just because we differ from you, we shouldn’t be shunned or mistreated!”
Now, anyone who has an even religious disagreement is shunned and mistreated. Except Muslims.
This goes to show how many in the closet LGBLTXYZs have wormed their way into our elected governments because the media refuses to inform the public.
By the way our media is also riddled with LGBLTXYZs only they’re right out in the open.
Next it will be the Committee for Public Safety.
“Brides” are even more ugly and have worse teeth.
They also will need a Racial and Gender Determination Board.
England is an almost entirely secular nation. Few people go to church, Anglican or otherwise. That explains the sexual decadence and why the English people do not seem upset about all this.
The United States is also becoming more secular. American Christians will lose their rights as well. Count on it.
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