The Australian Family Association

This could be called I suppose another community service announcement. This one is about The Australian Family Association.

Yep, you guessed it darlings. It seems these days that anything with the word "family" in it in a title, is actually a group opposed to LGBT people's rights. A front if you will. This time they're spitting the dummy about the AFL and it's new campaign not to have gay people bullied in it's organisation and games. A good initiative one would think? But not for The Australian Family Association. They come out with some strong words against the AFL about it all, and single out Jason Ball who's a gay footballer and has become quite a spokesman for gays.

Jason Ball whose petition resulted in the screening of the ads during the preliminary finals, was invited to speak to young AFL draftees at induction camps last month. He is a very articulate, handsome and intelligent young man and will undoubtedly have a great influence on the young draftees. 

Bullying for any reason is not to be tolerated and every person should be treated with respect and not gratuitously insulted. But this campaign is not about mutual respect and tolerance. It is about convincing the rest of the community that homosexuality is the same as heterosexuality and normalising the homosexual lifestyle.

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This is bullying and browbeating. A claim is made that there is a homophobic culture in the AFL. It is then treated as a fact and used to insist on the need for the issue of homosexuality to be put up on the big screen at football matches and for a gay-pride round to be held. In this way it is thrust in the faces of all the fans that they are impliedly guilty of homophobia and need to be educated not to be. It also deprives the many parents who wish to take their children to games of their right to raise these issues with their children at the appropriate time of their own choosing. more

How the hell they could refer to LGBT people wanting to be accepted as equals in society, could be called bullying, is beyond me. I guess I'll have to add that to the ever growing list of evil things that us gay people do.