Within a year I had joined the Government workforce and was in possession of a warrant that certified me as acting for the Minister of Indigenous [Native] Welfare and I was hiring staff myself to assist in the operation of an Aboriginal hostel, thus I was employing couples based on the same values that have evolved through the Christian ethos. But, a hostel is a different proposition to the out-of-home cottage system that I managed seven years later whereby surrogate parents were given a house and any number of Aboriginal children to care for. Such children came from broken homes or were orphaned. Whilst run under the auspices of a Christian denomination, cottage parents did not need to belong to that denomination but had to aspire to the same values of marriage and family as in the previous examples.
The priority for the hiring of cottage parents was definitive - one might say it was discriminatory - and discriminated in favor of [1] stable married Aboriginals who supported the Christian ethos, [2] stable married couples of any nationality who supported the Christian ethos, [3] single applicants who supported the Christian ethos. A good interviewer can determine the worldview of applicants as there were many factors to be considered, but that's the nutshell. There was no question that in the government-run hostel as well as for the private cottage system, the premium care to be provided for kids in the absence of the ultimate pre-eminent care of natural parents was a stable couple providing both mother and father figures. That I hired some single cottage parents was by necessity due to lack of married applicants. In one case, a single Aboriginal woman was given a baby and two small children and provided wonderful care. While she could not be faulted, the absence of a father figure was not ideal.
That was then. This is now, and it is the "now" of changes to the marriage laws which will not allow for discrimination as to gender or sexuality. Parliament will now proceed to debate just which exemptions will apply to wedding services, to free speech, to the hiring of carers, to conscientious objectors and so on. But it is not just what will be framed in legislation that is of concern - it is also the ethos that will pervade all things that have to do with children; viz., surrogacy, adoption, fostering, carers, babysitters, educators, medical care and treatments, unisex toilets/change rooms and the like. Already many serious problems have arisen in countries where same sex marriage has become law.
Why?
Australia just voted to burden itself with a new host of problems because -Discrimination! That is just another term that the neo-modernist left have hijacked to become obnoxious; much like so many other terms. We discriminate dozens of times each day and through life to both increase our quality of life and to even save our lives: what shall I eat to maintain optimum health; which school is best for my kids; which doctor, which route to take, which babysitter, etc, etc? Surely you would not discriminate against a newly-released criminal who applied to house-sit or babysit. Would you? And yet we hand over our children to those really awful people who have designed gender fluidity school programs. Already in play is adoption of kids by same-sex parents who deprive them of one or more natural parents with the excuse that such parents are as capable of love as any natural parent. That goes back to my single Aboriginal surrogate parent who gave her charges much love - while it worked nicely, that situation ought not become the pre-eminent standard. But it will become equated with the care given in a nuclear family, and the non-discriminatory premise built in to same sex marriage brings with it the policy of never discriminating against adopters, fosterers, carers and so on. Would I now be forced to employ a 'transgender' female as a housemother for the girls in a hostel? Why not even a male? Were I that government agent who interviewed us to foster two boys but now found myself vetting a couple - one of which is a trans male and her/his partner is a transhuman, I will not be permitted to discriminate against them on the basis of their preferred gender or identity, since they have now legally married.
Do you think I am exaggerating? Here are some of the 300 articles I found where those who rejected trans and same sex marriage were either refused adoption or were prosecuted for their beliefs. [ that's 300 articles and none refer to prosecutions of Christians who refuse to service a wedding....... there are plenty of those too].
Forgive them Father for they know not what they have done.
Jun 1, 2017 ... Christians who reject transgenderism banned from adoption, working ... all employees and volunteers who cannot in good conscience support and ... added, “Denying people of ... faith the opportunity to foster or adopt children ...
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Jun 1, 2017 ... “The implication is that intervention should not be presumed to be ... to discriminate against Christians who want to adopt or foster children.
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Jan 25, 2017 ... “These are gestapo-like tactics, and I can't believe we're witnessing it unfold in the ... Bill discriminates against Christianswanting to adopt. Parents who are seeking to adopt or foster but who oppose gender theory and gender ...
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4 days ago ... This is an existential threat we can't ignore ... florists, property owners, and adoption agencies finding themselves to be the targets of gay ... And worse: Christian parents and foster parents are increasingly finding themselves ...
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Jun 16, 2017 ... HB 3859, the Freedom to Serve Children Act, allows faith-based adoption and foster care organizations to receive state funding without fear of ...
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Jun 5, 2017 ... 'Make no mistake, Bill 89 is a grave threat to Christians and all ... who disagree with that agenda from fostering or adopting children. ... “[Y]ou can't remove a kid because the parent disagrees with the fact that a child is gay.
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Mar 14, 2017 ... ... from fostering or adopting children, according to an ARPA analysis. ... That “ implies that Children's Aid Society intervention should not be ...
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Sep 22, 2017 ... Christian agencies across the nation have closed over LGBTQI anti- discrimination ... Other foster and adoptionagencies in San Francisco and ...
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Aug 28, 2017 ... Foster parents are paid up to £474 ($612.59 US) a month per child ... supportive family homes to children who are unable to live with their birth ...
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May 11, 2017 ... He said that in light of Texas' “broken” foster care system, giving legal ... The bill also allows religious exemption from anti-Christian activities or ...
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