BREAKING NEWS
2 June 2016
In any case, we have a lot to learn from the dead
in a blog post , ACL director Lyle Shelton appealed to rise claiming Nazi Germany before the Labor leader Bill Shorten supports the Safe schools reflected “the failure of those of us who know better”.
, he wrote .
“cowardice and the weakness of the Australian ‘gatekeepers’ cause unimaginable things happen, such as the inexplicable things happened in Germany in the 1930s.”
Mr. Shelton started the post by declaring he loved to read the obituaries in The Economist , especially one released last week late German-born historian Fritz Stern. According to the obituary, Stern claimed the rise of Adolf Hitler owed less Führer’s personality cult and the failure of the German “gatekeepers” to resist him.
ACL manager then accused Australia’s own “gatekeepers”, or the conservative elite, that it does not stop the advance of marriage equality or transgender approval.
“The Labour leader Bill Shorten promise during the election fund so-called” Safe Schools program that teaches children as young as four that “only you can know if you are a boy or a girl – no one can tell,” and there is so little push back is a failure for those of us who know better, “Mr. Shelton wrote.
” Perhaps we have gone cowardly complicity. In any case, we have a lot to learn from the dead “
He went on to say:” ‘… There Shelton goes again – comparing us to the Nazis Not so, things in Australia face are bigger than the rainbow in politics, “Now I know some of my friends in the gay community will be saying
Safe Schools, a voluntary program intended to assist school-age children a better understanding of sexuality and gender equality issues, has borne suffer ongoing campaign to Conservative MPs and Australia newspaper. Critics of the program to defend it imposes a radical left-wing ideology of children by teaching gender fluidity.
Earlier this year, Turnbull government commissioned a review and therefore compared the program back to , including its definition of upper secondary schools and restrict certain materials.
Speaking to Fairfax Media, Mr. Shelton defended the communique said he was not putting the Safe Schools program at the same level as the Holocaust, in which more than six million Jews, homosexuals and other minorities were murdered.
“Safe schools do not have one, but it is a terrible ideology, however. The different consequences, but it is a terrible ideology,” he said.
“This is not comparing anyone to Nazis. I’m not saying that bad things happen when people are afraid of talking.”
work MP Terri Butler, one of the leading parliamentary supporters of marriage equality, said Mr. Shelton’s message was an example of “ignorant and divisive comments” that would be commonplace if re-elected Turnbull Board held a planned referendum on same-sex marriage. Labor has instead promised to provide for marriage equality 100 days of taking office.
Shirleene Robinson, a spokesman for Australian Marriage equality repeatedly called civilized and respectful public debate on the matter.
“Words can sometimes cause terrible harm and we ask that people of all opinions to remember that,” he said. “Use intemperate language can cause deep hurt among LGBTI people and their families.”
Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission, said Mr. Shelton’s comments were “deeply offensive” and asked him to forgive me.
“it does not matter how strong the arguments of marriage equality or the Safe Schools program, cynically lowering, turning and abuse of the Holocaust in order to advance any program and attack opponents is repugnant,” he told Fairfax Media.