Supporters of the Yes campaign for same-sex marriage have launched a bid to deregister a doctor who appeared in the first television advertisement for the No case in a move that threatens other practitioners.
Since appearing as one of three mothers in the Marriage Coalition advertisement, Pansy Lai, a GP in northern Sydney, has been subject to a petition organised by GetUp! seeking her deregistration and has been inundated with phone and social media threats. Dr Lai told The Australian last night she had reported to police one threat that she would be shot “this week”.
She also said her supporters in the Australian-Chinese community were “very alarmed and concerned that someone is trying to destroy my livelihood just because I spoke up for family values”.
The petition, backed by GetUp!, calls on the Australian Medical Association, led by Michael Gannon, and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority to deregister Dr Lai for a breach of medical ethics and the Geneva Conventions through “her participation in the recent No campaign”.
The use of a petition to lodge a complaint with medical authorities for endorsing the No campaign opens the way for any doctor who speaks in support of the No campaign to be subjected to the same threat.
“In seeking to ruin the career of a doctor who dares to disagree with its agenda, the same-sex marriage lobby has shown, yet again, that it has no interest in freedom of speech,” Ms Doumit said. “The petition against Dr Lai is a threat not only to her, but to any others who might try to voice their opinion. The message is loud and clear: agree on same-sex marriage or else.”
It is disgraceful tactics like this that will see many NO protest votes from people previously sitting on the fence or just not caring either way. People are being threatened with losing their livelihood and their life for having an opinion.
Agree with SSM or else? Forget it!!
Shorten donated over $100,000 of Union funds to these thugs and wasn't he an original board member of GetUp?
The latest furore over the same-sex marriage debate comes after a Father’s Day community advertisement was banned from free-to-air television because it was deemed “political” and before the High Court’s determination this week on whether the plebiscite on same-sex marriage can be held.
Now we can't have Fathers or Mothers?
The useful idiots who keep applauding this nonsense really need to speak to the thousands of damaged children that these unions have produced. There are so many stories out there against this sort of PC lunacy by children who have been damaged by way of being used as a pawn in these ridiculous PC games.
I'm voting no because I do not give my approval or consent
for men to sodomise each others backsides like animals or beasts.
It's revolting & disgusting.
Only 150 years ago you could be hanged by the neck until dead in most countries in the world -
including Australia - for such behavior.
To think that we should be approving this now is beyond comprehension.
It must be the End Times.
Anal sex is not just a homosexual practice and I don't care about what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms.
What I do care about is being bullied into submission by the demands of PC minorities who don't really even care about SSM. They just want to stifle free speech, bully those who oppose them, hijack the importance and meaning of the traditional family unit and are using SSM as their spring board.
It has gone beyond marriage equality as all relationships are equal within the law already.
It's not, and should never be, a crime to be gay but it should be a crime to be bullied by PC minorities into submission to stifle free speech, change the fabric of society, abolish all reference to the traditional family unit and indoctrinate our children.
Black Orchid wrote:Anal sex is not just a homosexual practice and I don't care about what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms.
What I do care about is being bullied into submission by the demands of PC minorities who don't really even care about SSM. They just want to stifle free speech, bully those who oppose them, hijack the importance and meaning of the traditional family unit and are using SSM as their spring board.
It has gone beyond marriage equality as all relationships are equal within the law already.
It's not, and should never be, a crime to be gay but it should be a crime to be bullied by PC minorities into submission to stifle free speech, change the fabric of society, abolish all reference to the traditional family unit and indoctrinate our children.
I agree, totally. As you say ALL relationships are equal within the law already, so what the hell are they going on about ..... the word "marriage"?
I know lots of people who have been living together for a very long time, have children, own houses but have NEVER married. Why would they, they are happy the way they are. I guess that about the only thing they haven't done by getting married, is spend a heap of money on wining and dining all the friends and rellies, and wearing a pretty "bridal" dress, etcetera. It isn't needed to have a happy relationship.
There is much more than the word "marriage" that the SSM activists want! I definitely will be voting NO!!
