2^nd December 2016

A strong recommendation to thinking friends.

After much thought, I agree with the author of the book shown here that if Same-Sex Marriage is made law, our culture will change radically in ways of which the average person is unaware.  I admire Penny Wong as a thoughtful and socially responsible politician, but her remark that SSM will effect a small change without any dire social consequences is, on all the evidence available, naïve in the extreme. 

I fear that many good people, accepting such reassurances at face value, are sleeping through an escalating culture war.  Dr van Gend’s analysis, by contrast, convincingly argues that in statistical terms, SSM will have serious flow-on effects, especially for children.

Dr van Gend is a qualified and experienced medical practitioner in Queensland.  For some years he has been President of the Australian Marriage Forum.   Having recently heard Dr van Gend speak at a launch of this book,   I believe him to be a genuine and competent researcher, not given to wild generalisations.

Further, having marked many academic theses in my time, and after careful reading of this book, I judge the book to be a solid analysis of evidence-based research.   It does not rely on particular religious beliefs to prove its case.  Rather, it documents many statistically secure findings from social and psychological sources.

In later chapters of the book, he also reviews the Safe Schools program, which has been widely publicised as an “anti-bullying program.”  The evidence he presents is again very strong.  Safe Schools is shown to be a deliberate and ideologically driven attempt to promote an agenda of gay sex education in schools, by-passing parental consent if necessary.  It aims to encourage all children from the earliest school years to consider their own gender perceptions fluid, and to engage in sexual experimentation.   On ethical grounds, I rate this as indoctrination, not education.

Incidentally, for a clearer idea of what will happen to parents if the Safe Schools program is made compulsory, view the testimony of a parent who, after she’d read the Safe Schools materials, withdrew her children from Frankston High School in Victoria, after having been refused her right to have the children opt out from this material because it was across the curriculum subjects.  It is a rivetting 9 minutes and can be viewed here.  

At $30, the book deserves wide dissemination, and I gather that copies can be ordered at Connor Court.  

Professor Brian Hill, 12/10/2016