Letters

Don’t create a new stolen generation

Robert Bom

Contents - Jul 2015 Laudato Si: Pope Francis’ call for “dialogue” on environmental challenges - Peter Westmore Family Synod: African bishops pledge to uphold Church teaching on marriage - AD2000 Report Culture: Magna Carta and Christianity: the inseparable links - Dr Augusto Zimmermann Religious freedom: Gay lobby targets Tasmania’s Archbishop Julian Porteous - AD2000 Report Marriage: The slippery slope to same-sex “marriage” - Anne Lastman Scripture: Ephphata! Be opened! (Mark 7:34) - Andrew Sholl Turin and Manoppello: “He has risen as he said ...” - Paul Badde Letters: “Our homeland is in heaven”: a response - Audrey English Letters: The Pope and “climate change” - Charles M. Shann Letters: Capital punishment: another view - Brendan Scheiner Letters: The Church and liberalism - Peter Gilet Letters: Don’t create a new stolen generation - Robert Bom Letters: Sexual abuse of children: a response - Anne Lastmen Books: THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE, by Rabbi David G. Dalin - Paul Simmons (reviewer) Books: THE CREED IN SCRIPTURE, by Stephen J. Binz - Paul Simmons (reviewer) Books: Contemplative Prayer: a New Framework, by Dom David Foster - Patrick Nolan (reviewer) Reflection: Benedict XVI acknowledges debt to St John Paul II - Pope Benedict XVI

If the Bill to change the Marriage Act passes, children affected will lose more rights to have a father and a mother.

The new definition of the Marriage Act then becomes, that any two people can marry.

Any married couple will automatically have the right to children, by natural means, adoption, surrogacy or science.

It is clear that tinkering with the Act could ensure the creation of a new stolen generation, as children become a tradeable product.

Changing the Act would create a celebration of self-satisfaction for adults, with no thoughts for the emotional needs of children or their rights.

A recent Galaxy Poll confirmed that if the Act were changed, once people found out how badly it affected children, any MP who voted for the change, particularly amongst the Coalition, could be faced with annihilation at the following election.

The plight of children will become a vote changer.

ROBERT BOM,
West Rockhampton, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 28 No 6 (July 2015), p. 9