THE corporate entity known as “Anti-Discrimination NSW” this week celebrated new totalitarian enablement legislation called the Conversion Practices Ban Act 2024 (NSW).
It brings into effect and promotes a so-called civil complaints scheme that will enable LGBTQ activists to launch state-funded lawfare harassment campaigns religious organisations, most notably Christian churches.
Despite assurances by proponents of the law that it would not outlaw people voluntarily seeking “any kind of personal help” ACL member Wendy Francis says these assurances appear hollow because the legislation affirms transgender ideology being pushed on pre-pubescent children who may feel insecure about their identity.
The event launching the Act was addressed by NSW Attorney General Michael Daley MP and president of the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW Chris D’Aeth. Special guest speaker was Anthony Venn-Brown OAM, the ex-Christian evangelist turned “gay ambassador”.
A panel discussion included Anna Brown OAM the gay rights activist/lawyer and Teddy Cook the transvestite and WHO adviser at the centre of an effort by transgender activists to censor criticism of child transgender mutilation through the eSafety Commissioner.
The Australian Christian Lobby warns that the intent of the laws is “often masqueraded behind sensationalist talk of former cruel practices that no longer exist in Australia”.
“However, in truth, the proposed reforms are far more ideological with the direct aim of cancelling a biblical perspective on sex and sexual behaviour,” the ACL says.
A ‘conversion’ practice is most often defined as any practice which seeks to change or suppress someone’s ‘gender identity’ or ‘sexual orientation’ (SOGI).
ACL’s NSW state director Joshua Rowe says that under the Act a parent trying to dissuade a 15-year-old girl from undergoing a double masectomy would be “entertaining a conversion practice”.
The Christian lobby says an easier way to define a conversion practice “is any practice which does not affirm someone’s misconceptions about their sex or their same-sex desires.”
“Proponents of ‘conversion’ legislation often allude publicly to coercive or abusive practices. However, masquerading behind these claims are provisions that outlaw certain prayers, parental rights, and clinicians’ conscience when offering care.
