The Australian Christian Lobby has called for a debate over proposed laws allowing people in Victoria to designate a non-biological gender on their birth certificate to be held off until after a same-sex marriage plebiscite.
Lyle Shelton, managing director of the ACL, said that LGBTIQ political lobbyists were “moving way too fast for ordinary Australians who hold to the biological view of boys and girls, men and women and do not want gender theory taught as fact at school”. He described the push for birth certificate reform as the latest step in “a deliberate ideological campaign to deconstruct society’s gender norms”.
Proposed legislation allowing for the change was introduced into the Victorian Parliament by the State Government earlier this month. The change would mean married people who changed their sex would not have to divorce on the grounds that they were in a same-sex relationship. There have been calls for similar reforms in Queensland.
“Australians will soon be voting on whether gender diversity should be removed as a requirement for marriage,” Mr Shelton said. “That is the appropriate time to debate the sort of ideas put forward by the Andrews Government.”
The Federal Government has yet to announce a date for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage and has come under increasing pressure in the past few weeks to allow for a vote in parliament on the issue instead.
