The Arab Spring began in 2011 with waves of youth demonstrations and protests aimed at overthrowing the Middle East’s anciens règimes. Since then, civil wars have created a mounting tide of refugees and migrants from the Middle East, as well as from north and central Africa, looking for peace and security in Western Europe. Last…
The experience of Canada and the U.S. raises serious questions about attempts in Australia to legalise same-sex marriage and to expand anti-discrimination law. Same-sex marriage is part of a libertarian-sexual revolution that involves having all sexual orientations or gender identities (SOGIs) as legally protected attributes of the autonomous individual. The revolution also involves legal and…
Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating same-sex marriage, GLBT activists have moved rapidly to consolidate their agenda. A bill entitled The Equality Act seeks to create anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). It would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to give the same protections to SOGI as…
The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for protection for the family, because of its fundamental importance to human existence and society. The resolution, which passed by a comfortable margin of 29 votes to 14 (with four abstentions), went almost unreported in the Australian press. It reaffirmed that “the family is the…
Concern that those of faith might suffer legal consequences if they continue to oppose same-sex marriage following a change in the law is well founded. Australian Marriage Equality director Rodney Croome says he has written to all Catholic Education Offices around Australia urging them not to distribute the Australian bishops’ booklet, Don’t Mess with Marriage.…
Demographics, poverty, unemployment, natural disasters, conflicts, crime and failed states are contributing to what could prove to be the biggest mass migration of people in history. If you have watched any of Ross Kemp’s various TV documentary series on the violent, lawless regions of the world, it…