Companies wrong to support gay ‘marriage’ and discriminate against kids

CEOs challenged: “Surely you are not prepared to sell a baby’s birth-right for a fistful of pink dollars?”

In response to newspaper ads placed by the gay marriage lobby group Australian Marriage Equality last weekend, where 153 companies declare their support for “marriage equality”, the president of the Australian Marriage Forum, Dr David van Gend, is writing this week to all 153 CEOs and company Boards.

“May I respectfully ask that your Directors reconsider their public advocacy for so-called ‘marriage equality’, which imposes profound inequality on those children of gay ‘marriage’ who will be deprived of either their mother or their father.”

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE CHILD
Dr van Gend challenges CEOs:
“Why are you supporting an injustice against the child?

“Marriage gives every child a mother and a father; same-sex marriage makes it impossible for a child to have both a mother and a father. That is the injustice of same-sex marriage.

“By your position in favour of homosexual ‘marriage’, your company is denying future children their primal relationship with either their mum or their dad.”

MARRIAGE EQUALITY – FOR THE CHILD!
The letter invites CEOs to publicly defend the right of the child to have, where possible, both a mother and a father. The 153 companies are invited to support an alternative newspaper ad with the headline:

MARRIAGE EQUALITY?
FOR EVERY CHILD, THE EQUAL RIGHT TO BOTH A MUM & A DAD

Dr van Gend writes,
“We ask you to give us your equal support for the child-centred model of marriage, as you have given to AME for the adult-centred model of marriage. Or is the deciding factor for your company, heaven forbid, that gay adults spend money but babies do not? Surely you are not prepared to sell a baby’s birth-right for a fistful of pink dollars?”

GAY MARRIAGE MEANS GAY PARENTING
Dr van Gend asks the CEOs:
“Why would a family-friendly company tell its customers that a mother just doesn’t matter to a child: any bloke and his boyfriend will be as good?

“And in the face of all evidence showing the adverse consequences for young men raised without a father, why are you promoting fatherless households through instituting lesbian ‘marriage’, lesbian adoption and lesbian IVF?

“You cannot, after all, grant marriage rights without granting adoption rights and assisted-reproduction rights. Some states in Australia prohibit adoption and surrogacy by same-sex couples (and by single people) because it is not considered to be in the best interests of the child. However, a federal law for same-sex ‘marriage’, with its inherent right to found a family, means state prohibitions must be repealed.”

HARM TO CHILDREN
Dr van Gend writes,
“I do not doubt the good will of your Directors: the typical kind-hearted reaction to this debate is to say, “Gay marriage doesn’t hurt anybody – why not let them be happy and get married?” But it does hurt somebody.”

He gives recent testimony of adults raised in same-sex households and then, in a hard-hitting rebuke Dr van Gend refers to recent published research on the harms to children of same-sex parenting and challenges CEOs not to collaborate with such harm:

“The most recent, and largest, peer-reviewed study (Sullins 2015[i]) finds that children raised in same-sex households have four times the rate of significant emotional problems compared to children raised by their own biological parents. While that largest and most recent study stands, your company stands guilty of promoting a family structure that has been found to be detrimental to children.”

THINK OF THE CHILD!
Dr van Gend tells CEOs they are faced with a choice between the demands of gay activists and the needs of a child:

“As the leading Australian ethicist and lawyer, Professor Margaret Somerville put it: ‘Same-sex marriage forces us to choose between giving priority to children’s rights or to homosexual adults’ claims’.[ii]

“It is a choice – and I cannot believe that your Directors have made the conscious choice that a child’s birth-right be abolished in law.

“I am confident that each of your directors would have the capacity, searching their own heart, to reflect on the child’s point of view. After all, a child has the birth-right to look up and see the only two faces on earth that reflect her own: the woman and the man who together gave her existence. A little girl should not have to look up and see two “married men” as her parents. Neither man can be a mother to her; they cannot guide her as a mother would when she is growing from girl to woman, nor model for her the complex relationship of husband and wife. Likewise, any boy needs his father’s companionship and example to help him become a man; no matter how competent and caring a lesbian partner may be, she cannot be a dad to a little boy.”

The full letter, with references, can be viewed at the AMF website www.AustralianMarriage.org
The list of companies publicly supporting same-sex ‘marriage’ can be seen at the www.corpsupport.org.au

[i] Sullins article at http://www.sciencedomain.org/abstract.php?id=21&aid=8172
[ii] Somerville article at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/its-all-about-the-children-not-selfish-adults/story-e6frg6zo-1226099613917
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President of the Australian Marriage Forum, Dr David van Gend