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Children as trophies, lead to unhappy families .
Saltshakers
Media Release:
October 2007
It should come as no surprise that when ‘Children become trophies it leads to unhappy families. And that is one reason why ‘Gender Matters’. Yet governments continue to endorse gender confusion and unnatural relationships and thus they encourage child abuse.
 Children are a gift from God – they are not a trophy or a commodity to be bought from a supermarket or an IVF clinic as an add-on to help unnatural couples pretend to be ‘parents’.
Of course many natural couples (a married man and a woman) are happy, even ecstatic, when they manage to have a child through IVF, often after many years of trying ‘naturally’. Usually their motives are the right ones – the wish to fulfil a natural desire to nurture a child. In this case the couple will take what comes, 1, 2, 3 or even 4 children, healthy or otherwise, as a blessing, never a curse.
BUT, if the ‘couple’ is not a ‘natural couple’, then feelings and reactions are more than likely to be very different, because they know they are already trying to achieve the impossible. They know they are not both ‘natural parents’ because they can’t do what comes naturally to get what they want – a child, so they are already putting unnatural pressure on themselves and their relationships.
Even if everything goes according to plan and, with the help of a third person or sometimes even a fourth, they manage to do the unnatural, it can never be the same as natural conception. There cannot be the sense of ‘oneness’ that comes through the natural conception and birth of ‘their’ child - a product of the love between a husband and wife. So why are we surprised when, if things do not go according to the ‘plan’, everything starts to unravel.
That, of course does not have good outcomes for the child. Being unnaturally conceived would be hard enough to contend with but an unravelling and emotionally unstable adult relationship can only make things worse.
We have seen this stark reality in recent weeks in Australia and many more are occurring here and overseas.
In two recent Australian cases of unnatural conception, one where two women used overseas donor sperm and IVF, and one where a lesbian used a homosexual man as a ‘convenience’, the courts have now been summoned to unravel the mess.
In the first case, in Canberra, the two women only wanted one baby and got twins, they are 3 years old and their ‘mothers’ are now suing the IVF doctor for negligence because they had two children!
In the other case, in Melbourne, the ‘sperm donor’ to two lesbians was a homosexual – his male ‘lover’ now wants to be registered as the ‘second father’ – the child will be ‘shared’ between the two ‘mums’ who live together and two ‘dads’ who possibly live together.
Overseas, the same nightmare is unfolding. In Canada, the Nova Scotia's ‘Progressive Conservative’ government (whatever that means!) has approved new regulations allowing a lesbian "spouse" of a birth mother to immediately register as the "other parent" on a birth certificate. Of course this effectively shuts out the sperm donor ‘dad’ from recognition. If he wants to be registered there would need to be 3 names on the birth certificate! If the Melbourne case is accepted, there could be 4 ‘parent’ entries on a birth certificate!
Because same-sex ‘marriage’ is now legal in Canada, other anomalies will soon follow. This could soon include ‘multiple partner marriages’. Legal advice to the Canadian government suggests that this is now almost inevitable as ‘Human Rights’ laws, in association with ‘religious freedom laws’, would allow ‘religious’ groups who believe in polygamy to register more than one wife, or even more than one husband!
Underlying these situations, of course, is the desire to deny the natural so as to achieve ones own selfish, ‘unnatural’, desires. Sadly, though, at the end of all this selfish social engineering there are the children who will end up suffering the most.
The uncertainty about who their natural ‘parents’ really are is bad enough, but that confusion, plus the all too often rejection from the inevitable break up of these unnatural relationships is more than any child should have to bear.1
Statistics show that that is the nature of unnatural same-sex relationships – they are inherently more unstable, often not monogamous, and the evidence shows that domestic violence/abuse 2 is worse than in heterosexual families.3
All children deserve to start life with their ‘natural’ mother and father – their mum and dad.
It is bad enough when a natural marriage breaks down, but to bring a child into the world under the sort of unnatural circumstances described above is irresponsible. Both on the part of the unnatural parents, governments and family law court who might consider complying with such an arrangement.
Unnatural conception, as already stated, is nothing short of child abuse.
This whole issue of unnatural ‘couples’ producing unnatural ‘families’ now appears totally out of control. We are repeatedly seeing humanist ‘Human Rights Laws’ being used to hold governments to ransom by a very small minority. More often than not, what is claimed as a ‘human right’ is decidedly inhuman, and certainly unnatural.
When are state governments in Australia going to realise the mess they are creating for future generations? When are they going to start thinking about the children? The 'so-called' 'stolen generation' will pale into insignificance compared to what is happening today.
IVF regulations are controlled by the state governments. IVF is already allowed for single women and lesbians in NSW and the ACT. In Victoria the Victorian Law Reform Commission has just recommended that the laws be broadened to allow lesbians and single women access to IVF.
At the federal level, Medicare currently pays for the use of IVF for single women and lesbians (where states allow it). We support the call for the federal government to amend the law so that single woman and lesbians cannot access Medicare funding for IVF services.
Not that this situation is a surprise to those of us who have campaigned against the obvious for many years. But sadly it seems it is a surprise to most of the community who have stood back and watched it happen and done nothing to call for common sense and for the rights of children to be put first and foremost instead of just being left as the silent, innocent, victims of science and social engineering.
This is why a group who have monitored this developing situation, and seen the inevitable writing on the wall for all too long have got together to show that “Marriage Matters” and “Gender Matter”.
Various groups, including Salt Shakers, have worked together to produce a booklet called “21 Reasons Why Gender Matters”. This is a must read for parents and young adults. Parents need to know the truth so that they can then help their children understand the truth about being male and female. Young adults need to know the truth because they are being bombarded with ‘Gender Confusion’ in magazines, in the movies and from social engineers in the classroom.
What is ‘natural’ must be commended and what is unnatural must be condemned – and if condemned seems too harsh a word, just think of the children who are a product of this current social revolution.
Gender is a ‘natural’ part of God’s creation – we need to understand why it matters.
A new, professionally produced and well referenced resource booklet called, '21 Reasons Why Gender Matters' is now available from Salt Shakers for just $5 inc. postage.
Phone today: 03 9800 2855 - for your copy of '21 Reasons Why Gender Matters'.
Special introductory offer - Purchase 5 copies for $15 including postage.
Gender matters, and so does marriage, that is why the ‘Marriage Manifesto’ which includes the previously released resource,’21 Reasons Why Marriage Matters’ can now be downloaded
1 Melbourne Gay Community Periodic Survey, 2000. At http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au/publications_gay.html
2. Fair's fair: A snapshot of violence and abuse in Sydney LGBT’, Report by the AIDS Council of NSW and the Same Sex Domestic Violence Interagency Report at http://www.ssdv.acon.org.au/providerinfo/documents/SSDV_A4report.pdf
3 To have and to hold, Chapter 2, Marriage and family in Australia At http://www.aph.gov.au/House/committee/laca/Famserv/chap2.pdf In comparison to 1 above
P Stokes
Co Founder & Executive Officer
Salt Shakers Inc
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