The progress of a pro-children campaign has stalled after a truck carrying two of its mobile billboards was vandalised and the driver of the van displaying it was threatened on Monday (14th July 2013) in central London. The GayMarriageNoThanks group released billboards aimed at highlighting the fact that children do better with married birth parents.
The group arranged for the poster to be driven around London on an advertising truck yesterday and today. But after the driver received abuse and the truck carrying the billboard was vandalised, the advertising company, Adtrailers Ltd, informed Alan Craig, campaign director for GayMarriageNoThanks, that they were “unable to send out the advertising truck today following yesterday’s campaign day. “Unfortunately the driver out yesterday received threats, the truck was vandalised and there have been several offensive complaints received.” A company representative also informed Mr Craig that people had made personal threats by email and over the phone which were “horrific”, “violent stuff” and “the worst I have known”.
These had caused Adtrailers unilaterally to cancel their contract with GayMarriageNoThanks “to protect their staff”. The violent threats and backlash to the campaign come just prior to the Third Reading of the Government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in the House of Lords today. The billboard campaign attempts to put children back at the heart of marriage in a debate which so far has “been about only the interests of adults,” according to Mr Craig.
The group also delivered a letter to the Prime Minister yesterday in Westminster, enclosing a copy of the New Family Structures Study by US Professor Mark Regnerus. The study, which drew upon randomly-selected sample of nearly 3,000 respondents, show that children are “most apt to succeed well as adults – on multiple counts and across a variety of domains – when they spend their entire childhood with their married mother and father.”
Mr Craig believes the incident with the billboards raises serious concerns in light of the same sex marriage Bill. “These incidents show how free speech is already being shut down before any change in the law on marriage” he said. “The billboard was simply intended to initiate legitimate debate concerning the best environment for raising children. We’re quite convinced that the overwhelming evidence demonstrates children do best with their married birth mother and father. This is a debate which urgently needs to take place. “Vandalism, abuse and threats of physical violence threaten to shut down such democratic debate. Advertising companies and others will no longer be willing to carry ‘controversial’ pro-children and pro-family messages if the safety of their employees is put in jeopardy. “The situation will only get worse with the passage of the same sex marriage bill. What will Mr Cameron do about it? We have been asking him to consider the welfare of our nation’s children. Now we’re also asking him what he will do to ensure freedom of speech for those who, for very good reasons, oppose same sex marriage.” ENDS
We are seeing a very clear illustration of how democracy and free speech have been confined out of the public arena in this country. The Social Services network is now pan-European and has the ability to label children as “at risk”, remove them from their parents and place them under the “adoption” of sodomites who are now “legally” classified as “married”. This has gone beyond the realms of debate and open discussion and is now a matter of Justice. Of course the evildoers don’t want this matter questioned publicly, just as the inquiries into Jimmy Savile’s connections have failed to focus on anyone but a few has-been TV celebrities. The idea that Mr Cameron could cause a radical about-turn is laughable. He has shown himself to be little more than a puppet junior manager of the Euro-region that this former nation has now become. We are seeing manifested the natural symptoms of a spiritual sickness in this country which has gone from chronic to life threatening in a very short period of time. Lobbying parliament about such matters these days is about as effective as petitioning King Herod on behalf of the innocents of Bethlehem. It is time that our petitions be laid before the Highest Court in the Universe. More things can be achieved by earnest and fervent prayer than you might imagine!
You are absolutely spot on couldnt have said it better!
[…] As we saw on Monday, the homosexuals will now be targeting freedom of speech and Christianity itself. When will the gay hate speech Bill next raise its ugly head? Who will be the first Christian teacher sacked for refusing to teach that ‘gay shows the way’? Which will be the first church taken to court for refusing a ‘gay wedding’? Watch this space. […]
Ed is combining two of his opinions here, that sodomites are evildoers, and that Cameron is powerless because he is a puppet of Europe.
These are both valid opinions, but I’m not sure they fit together very well in this case. Europe includes some quite conservative religious countries where sodomy is not at all welcome, not least Poland. The European Union is only the sum of the countries within it.
Anyway, it is doubtful that Cameron would want this “radical about-turn” even if he was not supposedly a puppet of Europe.
Obviously he is talking about the institutions of the EU.
But the institutions of the EU have to do what the ministers of the member states tell them to do. You couldn’t have a totally gay-friendly EU if the ministers of all the member states were staunch ant-gay Christians. That’s why the ministers have meetings from time to time to decide on policies, and occasionally work out new treaties, which all the countries have to agree to, some of them requiring a referendum.
Cameron has just as much say in European affairs as Hollande or Merkel or anyone else. There is no European Emperor or Puppet-master.
Ah, the naivety of youth.
The naivety of youth tends to back novel revolutionary systems which stand absolutely no chance of being adopted in a democratic election.