RECENTLY in Federal Parliament, the Prime Minister, supported by the leader of the Opposition, tendered an apology to the “Forgotten Australians” — roughly 500,000 children who found themselves in orphanages or homes in the 20th century, between 1930 and 1970.
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The abuses they had to bear were as innumerable as they were varied.
But most distressing of all was the children’s sense of loss of identity after being separated from their biological parents and other siblings.
In the present context, with the agitation of the same-sex marriage lobby to have the definition of marriage amended, it is becoming tragically clear that society is being pressed to undergo another trauma of similar dimensions in the future.
The Senate Inquiry Committee was presented recently with the dilemma of children being conceived by one biological couple but being permanently removed from one or the other of their biological parents, to being raised by the “commissioning couple”.
This is a flagrant denial of the inalienable rights of children in being removed from their biological families.
Such an inhumane policy to meet the anti-social demands of the same-sex marriage lobby can only create the trauma of another “Stolen Generation” and lay the basis for a repetition of the “Forgotten Australians” tragedy.
— JOHN ELLIS,
Jindera
