Action in brief
- Write a short letter to the Courier Mail expressing outrage that children’s rights have been trampled by extending surrogacy to singles and homosexuals
- Thank ALP MPs Margaret Keech (email: Albert@parliament.qld.gov.au) and Michael Choi (email: Capalaba@parliament.qld.gov.au) for their great courage and demonstrated Faith in crossing the floor to vote against the surrogacy bill
- If you live in a Labor electorate other than Michael Choi’s or Margaret Keech’s, please phone or e-mail to tell them you will not vote for them at the next election. MP’s details here.
- Congratulate the LNP for its commitment to repeal this law should they win government. MP’s details here.
Dear ACL Supporter
Last night the Queensland Parliament voted to allow singles and homosexuals to commission babies, denying the right of a child to at least enter this life in the care of its mother AND father.
Two Ministers of the Government showed what a sham this “conscience vote” really was by absenting themselves for the vote, when presumably that meant they disagreed with it and that they should have had the courage to vote against it. The only Labor Members with the courage to vote against denying children a mum and a dad were Margaret Keech and Michael Choi.
All LNP MPs voted against the Surrogacy Bill 2009 and the LNP has vowed to repeal the aspects of the bill which allow singles and homosexuals to commission babies.
Yesterday's vote is an outrageous breach of the most sacred trust between a society and its most vulnerable - our children.
It was despite a massive reaction from grass roots people such as you who signed petitions and sent e-mails in their thousands in the days leading up to the vote.
One Labor member, the former Attorney General and Member for Toowoomba North Kerry Shine, gave a speech which typifies the woolly thinking which has allowed kids’ rights to be trampled in this manner.
“The law should be a shelter for all beliefs and lifestyles,” Mr Shine told Parliament.
Sadly, Mr Shine and his colleagues in the Bligh Government fail to realise that the lifestyle any child naturally wants is with his or her mummy AND daddy.
I know you have been diligent in acting on this issue and we appreciate it. If you are able to follow this up with the suggestions above, it would reinforce the Christian constituency’s determination not to let this issue rest, as Anna Bligh obviously hopes for, just because it is two years until the next State election.
It is my hope that the passing of provisions which deny children in this manner will be a wake up call to all of us as Christians that we cannot afford to disengage from public debate in the political sphere.
Again, thankyou for what you have done so far to ensure the church was not silent at this time. Now it is time to let those who voted this way or through moral cowardice left the chamber so not to have to vote, know this will affect their re-election.
God bless
Jim Wallace AM
Managing Director
