Internationally-known children\u2019s rights advocate Katy Faust will address the Family First National Conference in Sydney via live video link from Seattle on August 22.
Ms Faust, whose advocacy for children and opposition to same-sex marriage and parenting has made her a target of left-wing media attacks \u2014 including a recent Mother\u2019s Day hit piece in The Seattle Times \u2014 is the founder of Them Before Us, a movement which argues that every child has a right to their mother and father wherever possible.
Family First National Director Lyle Shelton said Family First was honoured to host Ms Faust, who visited Australia during the 2017 marriage plebiscite campaign to assist the Coalition for Marriage.
\u201cKaty Faust has courageously articulated what millions of people instinctively know \u2014 that marriage is not primarily about adult desires but about the rights and wellbeing of children,\u201d Mr Shelton said.
\u201cFamily First shares Katy\u2019s goal of overturning same-sex marriage because of the harm it does to children by intentionally normalising the idea that mums or dads are optional.\u201d
Mr Shelton said the \u201cno difference\u201d thesis \u2014 the claim that children do just as well with two mums or two dads as they do with their married biological mother and father \u2014 had been promoted by activists and compliant media during the 2017 plebiscite campaign while dissenting evidence and arguments were aggressively suppressed.
\u201cThe reality is that children naturally long for and benefit from both their mother and father. Men and women bring different but complementary gifts to parenting,\u201d he said.
\u201cWherever possible, children should not be deliberately deprived of either parent through law and public policy.
\u201cThe push for same-sex marriage was never just about allowing adults to formalise relationships. It inevitably led to demands for surrogacy, sperm donation and IVF arrangements which intentionally create motherless or fatherless children.\u201d
Mr Shelton said Australians were denied the mature national conversation that should have occurred before the redefinition of marriage.
\u201cDuring the Voice referendum Australians finally saw what happens when both sides of an argument are properly aired and debated,\u201d he said.
\u201cIf the public in 2017 had been given the same opportunity to hear the other side of the marriage debate \u2014 without the censorship, corporate activism and intimidation that occurred \u2014 same-sex marriage would never have received majority support.\u201d
Mr Shelton said Ms Faust\u2019s appearance at the Family First National Conference would provide Australians with an opportunity to hear arguments and evidence that had too often been excluded from mainstream discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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