A Letter to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Regarding Marriage Legislation
29 July 2004
Dear Committee Members
I am writing to express my very strong support for the proposed Marriage Legislation amendment that would define marriage as “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”.
Numerous research studies have shown that people identifying as homosexual suffer higher rates of disease1, domestic violence2, crime3, drug and alcohol abuse4, and suicide5 than the general public, that they commit crime6 at a higher rate than the general public does, that they tend to have sex with numerous short-term partners7, and that homosexual couples rarely maintain long-term monogamous relationships8.
In light of this, and for the sake of Australia’s children, most all of whom would want, and benefit from having, both a father and a mother, I strongly believe the Senate should not take it upon itself to extend the prerogative and rights of marriage to homosexuals. The Australian Red Cross openly discriminates against anyone who has engaged in ‘male to male’ sex9, and with very good reason. Likewise our marriage laws should discriminate against homosexual couples.
Several organisations10 have been founded by former homosexuals to help people leave the destructive homosexual lifestyle. The thousands involved in and helped by these organizations are testament to the fact that the homosexual lifestyle is destructive and that it is a lifestyle of choice, i.e. that people are not ‘born that way’.
People involved in homosexual lifestyles need help, and hope. To pander to them by maintaining that they are ‘born that way’, or that there is a mythical ‘homosexuality gene’, etc, is to remove the hope they so desperately need, regarding them as if they are merely instinct-driven animals incapable of restraint, rather than moral beings created in the image of God, but desperately needing help. Those who really care about these suffering people want them to achieve the best they can with their lives, which necessarily involves rejecting a homosexual lifestyle. It is those who don’t care who try to legitimize this destructive sex-obsessed lifestyle that destroys so many of our citizens.
Yours with heartfelt disgust for those politicians willfully and cynically pushing a pro-homosexuality agenda,
Andrew Lamb
41 Leah Avenue
Salisbury 4107
Brisbane, Queensland
(Mostly cited from pages 149–151 of Press vs Pulpit, by Cameron Horn.)
1. e.g. The Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 164, page 715, June 1996, reports that 86% of the HIV infected in Australia are homosexuals.
2. e.g. The Leader Messenger (South Australia), 4 June 1997, page 1, gave figures indicating that a massive 28 out of 168 reports of domestic violence involved homosexual couples, whilst only around 1 in 1,000 of all couples were homosexual.
3. e.g. The Eastern Psychological Association of USA, in a 17 April 1993 paper titled ‘The homosexual lifespan’, reported that homosexuals suffer double the rate of murder that heterosexuals do.
4. e.g. The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, April/June 1993, pages 404–405, stated “The substance abuse rate amongst homosexuals is disproportionately far greater than that of the general population. The current consensus of researchers is that 30% of homosexuals are alcohol abusers compared with 10% of the general population.”
5. e.g. Ref. 3 above also reports that homosexuals suffer double the rate of suicide and 17 times the rate of death by road accident!
6. e.g. The Law and Justice Committee of Washington State, on 15 December 1989, accepted testimony under oath from Washington State Councilor Jim Warren that he had interviewed almost every murderer in Washington state jails under the age of 36, and discovered that 50% of them committed their murders in the context of a casual homosexual encounter—this despite homosexuals making up less than 1% of the general Washington population. See also Ref. 2 above.
7. e.g. Sex in America: A definitive Survey, by R.T. Michael et al., 1994, reports on page 134 that over a period of twelve months, homosexuals have on average seven times more sexual partners than heterosexuals.
8. e.g. a survey of 380 San Francisco gays aged 18 to 29 published in The American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 84, pages 1933–1937, 1994, was unable to find even one instance of a homosexual couple that had been monogamous for as long as three years.
9. http://www.giveblood.redcross.org.au/displayStatic.asp?pageID=8
10. e.g. Exodus International