Aussies set to experience the 'marriage battle'

[Guadalupe]

Aussies set to experience the 'marriage battle'
Friday, August 11, 2017 | Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)

Thus far, Australia has been able to hold on to a traditional definition of marriage – but it will be holding its first ever nonbinding mail-in vote next month on the fate of the institution there.

Homosexual activists and their supporters are trying to block the vote fearing that, as in the U.S., most Australians will oppose changing millennia of tradition and science. But Parliament wants the public input, and many – like former Prime Minister Tony Abbott – are asking them to retain natural marriage.

"If you don't like same-sex marriage, vote no. If you're worried about freedom of speech and freedom of religion, vote no," advised Abbott. "And if you don't like political correctness, vote no – because this is the best way to stop it in its tracks."

The former Australian leader is getting scorned in his country for the comments, but attorney Jim Bopp says the slippery slope to the erosion of religious freedom is inevitable – and he should know.

"When Proposition 8 passed in California, which was to protect traditional marriage, the immediate reaction of the gay lobby was to decide to punish the supporters of traditional marriage," he recalls.

Bopp was the attorney who fought homosexual activists in the wake of that battle.

"They got the list of contributors to the Prop. 8 campaign; they then Mapquested that, put it on the Internet, and urged people to go confront the people, [even] in their houses," he tells OneNewsNow.

"... Supporters of traditional marriage ... had their businesses boycotted, they were fired from even important positions in companies, there was vandalism and violence directed toward houses and people," the attorney continues.

According to Bopp, bullying and intimidation has been a consistent reaction when pro-"gay marriage" activists lose any battle.

"Rather than live and let live and be tolerant of people who disagree after they got gay marriage, they decided to attack and assault and penalize people who don't agree with them," he summarizes.

Bopps adds that it's obvious to most people – from biology, from science, from history, from parenting outcomes, and from plain common sense – that marriage is the union of a man and a woman. And that, he argues, is why homosexual activists resort to constant harassment and occasional violence to bully the public into supporting unnatural marriage.

link

[rachel]

I didn't see this post before I posted an update in the other thread on the matter.

I haven't heard of physical violence such as that described in California in that article, but in terms of words things are already very, very anti-"no", and with almost two months left to go until the post-vote I do worry that things will get to physical violence by then. Of course, if physical harm does come to "no"-opinion-holders, it's certainly not going to be reported by the media, which is very strongly pro-"yes" and anti-"no"... but I would no doubt hear of it through Christian circles.

I was just discussing with my mother this afternoon the possible outcomes of all this. For one thing, I am very worried about the sort of country my children, if I am given any one day, will grow up in. We're very blessed to live in a country where violence against Christians is not common, but there are countries all over the world where Christians are killed regularly because they disagree with the official doctrine, and that doesn't seem as distant and impossible-for-here a situation as once it did.

If there's a "yes" outcome, then there will be an official referendum (a vote which MUST be acted on by the legislature), gay marriage will no doubt be legalised, and we will see the country going the way of the US as the leftist lobby moves onto the next thing and forces us to accept mixed-gender bathrooms and all sorts. Churches will be forced either through social pressure or law to allow and support gay marriage. My pastor believes it's already difficult for Christians to get certain jobs (such as public service) if they hold the non-PC views and with a "yes" outcome I expect job discrimination will happen sooner rather than later.

If there's a "no" outcome, all that's happened is we've delayed it for a few years at best. Yes, the republic referendum happened almost twenty years ago and there have been only murmurings about it since, but there's a much stronger and more militant lobby behind this one. The problem won't go away, we'll just have to go through it all again soon enough and then we're back to Option A above. My mother also said she fears for the immediate response from the leftist lobby groups and she thinks that a "no" outcome might inspire violence towards Christians and other "no"-supporters all the sooner.

So there's the view of it from someone who's caught in the middle of it. For the record, though, it's not a "battle". It's very one-sided and the traditional, conservative side are being very strongly silenced by the media and the very loud leftist side. These are certainly frightening times to be a Christian.

[Guadalupe]

Thank you for sharing a front row view of that situation, Rachel. I agree that no matter what happens, Christians have a struggle ahead no matter what country we're in. We'll pray for you all.