Professor Kuruvilla George, Victoria’s deputy chief psychiatrist has found it necessary to resign from his membership of the board of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission.
As a private citizen he had signed a Senate inquiry submission which argued that marriage should remain a heterosexual state because it was important for the nation’s health.
The submission was signed by 150-plus doctors.
Dr George’s expression of opinion has, according to the media “polarised senior members of the commission” and “provoked angry responses from medical lobby groups which argued that his involvement was inappropriate”.
What did this submission which bothers so many people actually say?
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It says, “ . . . the evidence is clear that children who grow up in a family with a mother and father do better in all parameters than children without”.
Also that “ . . . if there is one major demographic change in western societies that can be linked to a large range of adverse consequences for many children and young people, it is the growth in the numbers of children who experience life in a family other than living with their two biological parents, at some point before the age of 15.”
They also quote research showing that the rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men was 44 times that of other men and 40 times that of women — and that primary and secondary syphilis rates were 46 times that of other men and 71 times that of women. (data presented at the 2010 National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta USA)
(more details at www.doctors4family.com.au/references/ and www.doctors4family.com.au/marriage/)

Last month a group called Australia21 released a report entitled “The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children and We are Letting it Happen . . . .”

Aus21calls itself “an independent, non-profit organisation” doing “multidisciplinary research and inquiry on issues of strategic importance to Australia in the 21^st century”.

Independent? Not very.  They receive funding from federal and state governments.

Our politicians are being very cute.

The Prime Minister and Premiers all commented unfavourably on the report.

Keeping their noses clean by protesting how they disagree with it . . . .

Yet having, perhaps, gone to some trouble to ensure that a report stating exactly these views would eventuate.

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Observe Australi21’s membership: Peter Baume, Geoff Gallop, Alex Wodak etc. — famous “harm-minimisation” protagonists from way back.

Anybody ever involved in attempts to get real action against drugs will have come up against these very chaps . . . .

. . . immune to logic and with all the perfect connections to stop anything happening.

The September 2007 federal parliamentary report “The Winnable War on Drugs” exposed the uselessness of “harm minimisation”.

Better for the government to turn to its recommendations.

The Aus21 report could be filed away somewhere.

Ever wonder where your taxes go?

Much goes on suppressing the Catholic religion.

Listen.

Christians must seek to ensure that young people know about God and his laws. That’s why we have Catholic schools.

Christians must seek to participate in practical and loving care of the poor, sick, dying – hence Catholic hospitals and welfare agencies.

But . . . .

. . . the taxes paid by Catholics are increasingly devoted to abolishing exactly those activities.

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The day comes when any homosexual failing to land a job that he/she sought in a Catholic school, hospital etc., will be able drag the employer endlessly through equal-opportunity tribunals, kangaroo courts etc.

The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, in a recent submission to an Attorney-General’s inquiry, called for “removal of religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexuality – particularly in relation to employment and the provision of health and community services . . . .”

AFAO and numerous like-minded bodies receive taxpayer funding – your money — via the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA).

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Jesus Christ taught that God’s will regarding “sexuality” is that “a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.”

Will the Church have to “correct” his words?

Perhaps to “a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife and/or same-sex partner . . . .”

Blasphemous?

Stupid?

There’s a real war on in culturesville.

Wars have casualties.

New leader of Australia’s Greens Party, Christine Milne, criticises the Gillard government for its obsession with “getting the budget into surplus by 2012-13”.

She recommends forgetting austerity-type responses to budget problems — and putting more money into a free dental scheme.

The Milne-style Greens’ way of dealing with the budget will be basically to slug the miners even more than Labor would — on the pretext of saving the environment.

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Is she really so interested in teeth and in making electricity super-expensive?

Perhaps she is a bit.

But it is evident that she is devoted first and foremost to pushing the homosexual agenda and to destroying Catholicism and traditional morality.

Her dentistry/budgetry comments are mellowish Bob Brown-like icing on the cake . . . .

The cake itself being a mutation of previous Green-ism – worse even than previous Brown-Green-ism.

The Milne is herself a lapsed Catholic – so lapsed that she says her part in imposing pro-homosexual laws in Tasmania (where she was briefly a state MP) was “among her proudest political achievements”.

Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, rejects decriminalising drugs: “Drugs kill people, rip families apart, destroy lives . . . I’m not in favour of decriminalisation of any . . . .”

Senator Carr, however, claims that the war on drugs has “failed” and that “new approaches” are needed.

He calls marijuana and ecstasy “lesser drugs”. He wants them decriminalised.

Has he ever tried to have an intelligent conversation with anybody who has used marijuana within the last month?

Or dealt with young people, once promising, studious, enthusiastic, now capable of nothing but hearing psychotic hallucinatory voices and stealing to support their habit?

Senator Carr, newly made Foreign Minister, is interfering in others’ portfolios and contradicting party policy.

The PM should sack him now — first offence.

March 22 was apparently Australia’s sixth annual “National Close-the-Gap (CTG) Day”, its purpose being to close the gap between indigenous and other Australians’ life  expectancies.

This week, Australian GP doctors recived an information sheet from the Royal Austrealasian College of General Practitioners — telling them to ask ALL patients whether they are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait origin:

“As part of the RACGP Standards for General Practices (4^th Edition), general practice teams need to demonstrate they routinely record the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status in active patient health records.”

GPs are also recommended to join a scheme where, by writing “CTG” on prescriptions for Aboriginal/Torres Strait patients, they receive their medication for nothing.

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Are not these policies more likely perpetuate the gap rather than close it?

Already GPs can bulk bill anybody they choose.

Does not giving people something for absolutely nothing run the risk of their respect for it being absolutely none — which helps nobody?