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Family First conference to hear Katy Faust's strategy for ending same-sex marriage

Family First Party

Internationally-known children’s rights advocate Katy Faust will address the Family First National Conference in Sydney via live video link from Seattle on August 22.

 

Ms Faust, whose advocacy for children and opposition to same-sex marriage and parenting has made her a target of left-wing media attacks — including a recent Mother’s Day hit piece in The Seattle Times — is the founder of Them Before Us, a movement which argues that every child has a right to their mother and father wherever possible.

 

Family First National Director Lyle Shelton said Family First was honoured to host Ms Faust, who visited Australia during the 2017 marriage plebiscite campaign to assist the Coalition for Marriage.

 

“Katy Faust has courageously articulated what millions of people instinctively know — that marriage is not primarily about adult desires but about the rights and wellbeing of children,” Mr Shelton said.

 

“Family First shares Katy’s goal of overturning same-sex marriage because of the harm it does to children by intentionally normalising the idea that mums or dads are optional.”

 

Mr Shelton said the “no difference” thesis — the claim that children do just as well with two mums or two dads as they do with their married biological mother and father — had been promoted by activists and compliant media during the 2017 plebiscite campaign while dissenting evidence and arguments were aggressively suppressed.

 

“The reality is that children naturally long for and benefit from both their mother and father. Men and women bring different but complementary gifts to parenting,” he said.

 

“Wherever possible, children should not be deliberately deprived of either parent through law and public policy.

 

“The push for same-sex marriage was never just about allowing adults to formalise relationships. It inevitably led to demands for surrogacy, sperm donation and IVF arrangements which intentionally create motherless or fatherless children.”

 

Mr Shelton said Australians were denied the mature national conversation that should have occurred before the redefinition of marriage.

 

“During the Voice referendum Australians finally saw what happens when both sides of an argument are properly aired and debated,” he said.

 

“If the public in 2017 had been given the same opportunity to hear the other side of the marriage debate — without the censorship, corporate activism and intimidation that occurred — same-sex marriage would never have received majority support.”

 

Mr Shelton said Ms Faust’s appearance at the Family First National Conference would provide Australians with an opportunity to hear arguments and evidence that had too often been excluded from mainstream discussion.

 

The Family First National Conference will be held in Sydney on August 22. Further speaker announcements and ticketing details are available here.

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