No slippery slope? Only
an activist or a mindless useful idiot would believe that. This is all
about establishing a beachhead for a much broader and expansive agenda
including to not just redefine, dilute and diminish, but actually make
irrelevant and demolish the very institution they say they want to be
part of. There are a number of links to core material in the body of the
main feature at the primary link below.
Here’s the Greens agenda right up front, and in their own words. From the Andrew Bolt blog
“…Sounds too crazy to be true?
Then check the Greens’ own website.
Simon Copland
It features two articles by
Simon Copland (editor of Green Agenda and former ACT Greens convenor)
and Joel Dignam (a lead organiser of the ACT Greens), which make
absolutely clear that to them, at least, same-sex marriage is just the
first and crucial breakthrough to wider change.
Introducing these two pieces on the Greens website is this declaration, under the headline Beyond Marriage Equality:
For more than a decade now marriage
equality has dominated the energies of gay and lesbian campaigners. So
when we achieve it, we can all celebrate and relax, right? Not a
chance….
Here’s Dignam, who argues that
legalising same-sex marriage is just the start of “expanding” the
definition of marriage, an institution he criticises as “patriarchal”:
Queer campaigners are beginning to
question the validity of same-sex marriage as a campaign focus. But if
we are to think in terms of our ultimate objective as queer campaigners,
then we should recognise that ‘equal love’ is a critical step…
The point of a campaign is less to
solve everything, and more to build power to continue to achieve
victories. Legalising same-sex marriage won’t only reduce discrimination
— it will give queer organisers a stronger platform to create further
change …
Queer campaigners should not win
their rights by meekly trudging into the tent of patriarchal marriage,
their tails between their legs. Rather, the same-sex marriage campaign
can be about dismantling the walls of the tent, expanding it to be open
to more of us, and continuing to liberalise this cultural institution …
Here’s Copland, who treats
same-sex marriage as merely a “symbol” in a crusade for further rights –
contradictin the activists now telling us this is really just about the
right of two gays to marry and nothing else, whether safe schools or
gender fluidity theories:
The marriage equality campaign
appeals to mainstream society — and theoretically conservative
politicians — in a way that ‘less palatable’ bodies and stories don’t…
So what will be the next step down the slippery slope for such activists once they win on same-sex marriage?
Again, the Greens – Copland
particularly – have the answer, and this, too, is exactly as
conservatives citing the “slippery slope” predicted. Yes, polygamy will
be next, although most activists for now deny it.
From 2012:
Greens ACT convenor Simon Copland
said: “I am now seeing major queer organisations and queer activists
develop exclusive habits, excluding those who they think don’t fit the
mainstream gay and lesbian model. For example, after some publicity
around the issue, marriage advocates from Australian Marriage Equality
and the Greens recently (came) out strongly against the idea of
polyamorous marriage…
“The institutional queer movement
has become dominated by upper-to middle-class wealthy queer activists
ensuring a select few get equal access to heteropatriarchal systems.”
The Greens’ then leader in the United Kingdom was open to that idea just two years ago:
Green party leader Natalie Bennett has revealed she is open to the idea of legalising three-way marriages.
She replied: “At present, we do not
have a policy on civil partnerships involving more than two people… We
have led the way on many issues related to the liberalisation of legal
status in adult consenting relationships, and we are open to further
conversation and consultation on this issue.”