Dear Friend,

As you may know www.doctors4family.com.au has featured in Australian Doctor, the Herald Sun, Channel 10 news, Project 10, the ABC and I will be further interviewed on Radio National Mon 0800 EST and 3AW around 0700.

Some of our doctors have been subject to “hate speech” and Prof Kuruvilla George in Victoria has been subject to a lot of attack. As a group we have had emotive labels thrown at us but without any logic or science. As a result of today’s activities I am getting a lot of supportive letters, new doctors joining and a lot of “hate mail”.

Sometimes it is best to say nothing if we are under personal attack and just let the vitriol and hate speech speak for itself. Otherwise a gentle answer e.g. to a “gay” colleague “I’m sorry you’re upset but we do think we should be able to say that all children need a mother and a father.”

Below is recent mailing on behalf of doctors4family:

It is disappointing just how many interpret our defence of marriage as being an attack on homosexuals. Doctors have always accepted people of different beliefs and behaviours with care and compassion. That is what we do. That is who we are.

We are also allowed to have our own values and stand up in community to defend those values when they are being attacked. Marriage as between a male and female to the exclusion of all others is one of those values we hold with high regard. That all children should ideally have a mother and father is another.

There are those within the homosexual community who I believe simply want to be with their partners in a lasting relationship and are not seeking to limit others beliefs or choices or freedom of speech. For some years I and my young family lived next door to two men who I later realised were “gay” when they were visited by gay people I recognised as patients. They were lovely people and I always respected their choice to live with each other. We shared meals and they loved our kids.

Then there are those within the homosexual community who simply want to achieve “marriage” as a symbol of respectability but see it as “stifling” and a “rickety institution” and who would build in “extra-marital outlets” to suit their lifestyle.

There are also those within the homosexual community who are vehemently opposed to any freedom we have to teach our children our values on marriage and family. They see this as a condemnation of their lifestyle and they want to overcome this by ensuring acceptance of homosexuality in schools and charging us with “hate-speech” if we dare to say what we believe.

This latter group has tragically increased the feeling of non-acceptance by those that simply want to live their lives in peace and respectability and who see our defence as personal attack – which it is not.
And from a Christian perspective this link may be helpful.

http://www.chooselifeaustralia.org.au/life/why-the-battle-for-marriage-is-so-significant/

Lachlan

Sometimes you just gently teach
Sometimes you preach with invitation
Sometimes you confront and challenge
Sometimes you have to condemn
Sometimes you have to drive the money-changers out of the temple
Sometimes you have to walk with Christ to Calvary

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A safe place for our children!
Lachlan