by Belinda Jabore
As the issue of same sex marriage continues and has been allowed already in some states in Australia and overseas, this is a question that needs to be asked is what do you think about it? And what are you going to do about it? There has been a minority group of people trying to destroy the foundations of a majority group of Australian people’s standards and belief system and doing their utmost to get their way as they scream the loudest and petition the MPs in Government continually. Yet there are champions in there also letting their voice be heard debating this issue and not allowing this to proceed any further. But also there is a majority of Australian people who seem to be in this matrix void that it is like they can’t seem to respond or want to respond to this crucial issue and continue to say nothing. Compromise is rampant and sometimes us, as Aussies, seem to put it in the too hard basket, we Aussies leave it open and we do not have an understanding to do something and not be complacent in this issue. I know most people I talk to have a strong opinion about this issue, but why are we not being heard? Martin Luther King was so right to say “for when good men do nothing evil prospers”. Because these minority groups speak the loudest they usually get what they want. Australians must make a stand on these issues and not just let our politicians handle them. The truth is that they are overwhelmed by these moral issues and they are not meant to handle them - the church is. But that’s another issue.
Reality is they are a minority group trying to change the very foundation of Australian Christian Morals and foundations that we are built on and they are standing against the family unit and values. Government are allowing it to happen as all they tend to hear is the minority group. You see if you destroy the foundation of marriage you destroy the family unit and all it stands for. Now if this minority group of people feel the need to marry then they can do it the government would allow them but without necessarily changing the foundations of Australia. But if they have to marry (and it is their choice and their will to do so) then the very thing they are standing for they are destroying. The bottom line is that this is sin and when you sin it will bring death to a thing, which will bring death to the family unit and the very values of family and what marriage stands for. The bottom line is children need a Mother and a Father. In our eagerness to remove so called discrimination amongst adults we end up discriminating against our children. We are losing Australian values and children’s rights are being ignored in this debate. My family and I am passionate to reverse this inequity. You see our kid’s rights count and children need a Mother and a Father. Marriage between a man and a woman is the foundation stone of families! Families are the foundation of our nation! Marriage redefined is marriage destroyed. Destroy marriage and you destroy the nation! To change a foundational stone of Australian morals of the family unit and it’s value system will destroy marriage and families and all they stand for. I am just stating the obvious. Who will give a voice to those who cannot be heard? Who will protect those who cannot defend themselves? Who will be brave for those who are too small? Who will defend our children’s rights?
Now a Government that attempts to change that foundational stone will pay dearly for that and there will be consequences. The Government needs help and divine wisdom on this issue. We, as a people, need to continually pray and ask God to show our Australian Government what to do. The Church needs to be a voice and help in these issues and a continual reminder of what our foundations are and our constitution was built on. As we allow change to crucial issues such as these we then wonder why we have crime rates escalating murder, lawlessness and violence and we do not feel safe in our streets and cities. The decisions we make now will determine our future and its outcomes. As Prophets and Apostolic people we must continue to stand against these injustices. We will not agree with what they are doing and we will not say yes to a foundational change to Australia - not on our watch. So please I beg you to write, email, ring, go with a group of people and speak to your local members in your suburb or city of how this cannot continue to go ahead.
I have quoted some text from what was written in this article by the Canberra Declaration crew and an article from an amazing prophetic voice written by Angela Shanahan for the Australian July 29th 2011 on the Australian national affairs who gets an expert Margret Somerville who is a distinguished legal ethicist on the matter and both of their words speak volumes.
Margret Somerville says and I quote, “marriage exists as a social institution only to protect the children born of a union and give special legal status to the natural family, and homosexual relationships cannot produce children. By abolishing the exclusively heterosexual nature of marriage, the special legal status of the natural family will collapse. Children will suffer,” and Somerville stresses, this includes children conceived, naturally or by biotech connivance, within a same sex relationship because it deprives them of a Father and Mother.
If homosexual relationships are given the same legal status as heterosexual marriages the homosexual lobby will have gained its final moral and legal triumph and according to Somerville, that will mean widespread collateral damage of people’s rights perhaps most peoples. It will become difficult if not illegal to speak out against this. Institutions and individuals that have moral objections to same sex marriage (churches, schools, ministers of religion, teachers, civil marriage celebrants, adoption agencies and so on) will have their rights of speech and association, freedom of conscience, belief and religion, curtailed and possibly eliminated. This has happened in many countries, including Sweden, where speaking out against homosexuality per se has become a hate crime. (If you think it couldn’t happen here, think about the general political correctness surrounding homosexual issues, even before gay marriage has become legal.) MPs are being asked to debate all these issues - homosexual debate and euthanasia debate. Never before have MPs been asked to debate things that, frankly have never been thought of as issues for political debate. The politics of moral issues don’t sit well with most politicians, who have a hard enough time coping with the practical problems of their electorates. It is easy to see why a member forced with say, the collapse of an industry in an electorate and a tax that may force worse, is not going to sweat over gay marriage.”
Nevertheless this is a distraction of the highest degree and as people in a democracy we must stand up for our rights and the foundations on which Australia was built on!
So what do you think? And are you going to do something about it? God put a man and a woman and His laws in place in a marriage and in place for a reason to protect us from harm and heartache and to allow our children to be safe and built on the right foundations.