By Lyle Shelton, Family First
anti-abortion crusader “abortion is genocide”
Barclay McGain is a legend, fighting the forces in the LNP that are not only pro-killing unborn babies, but who use ruthless power to gag even discussion of a pro-life, pro-woman or pro-baby position.
Shame on the LNP.
I hope Barclay succeeds in a pro-life takeover of the LNP and restores it to its founding values.
Former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke Petersen, who coined the phrase “feeding the chooks”(speaking to media), would not have had a bar of Crisafulli’s anti-free speech, pro-death impost on grassroots party members.
Anti-abortion activists target ‘wholesale capture’ of LNP
Barclay McGain, the general manager of the Conservative Political Action Conference Australia, reckons he’s been permanently blocked from rejoining the Liberal National Party in Queensland.
But that’s not stopped the 25-year-old – forced to quit the LNP in the blowback from a racist video posted on the Young LNP’s social media accounts in 2019 – from shouting from the rooftops about his plan to infiltrate the party and force it further to the right.
Chooks reported last week about the former chairman of the Gold Coast Young LNP boasting he’s recruited 200 of the 800 members of the party’s powerful youth wing who are anti-abortion and anti-immigration.
McGain’s gone further, telling a recent launch event for a Christian “political discipleship” movement of his plans to “wholesale capture and reform the Queensland LNP, which only has 9000 to 10,000 members, then we can make it a pro-life party”.
Describing abortion as a “genocide”, McGain said young Christians needed to join the LNP to influence the outcome of candidate pre-selections to ensure people with anti-abortion views succeeded.
“(And) kick out some of the people who have really infected the Liberal Party in recent years,” he said.
That was the strategy to get to 47 seats in the Queensland parliament, the “magic number to overturn the Termination of Pregnancy Act”, McGain said.
At the end of the event, the host told attendees there were representatives of three political parties waiting to help people join: people from Family First and One Nation, and “if you want to talk to Barclay about the LNP, please do that”.
Premier David Crisafulli – who in the final days of last year’s election campaign declared himself to be pro-choice – secured party-room support last December to gag the parliament from debating any changes to abortion laws at least until the 2028 election.
Cairns News: Crisafulli’s ban on abortion debate according to a legal opinion is unlawful and he could be charged under the Criminal Code s 55:
Interference with the Legislature (1)Any person who, by force or fraud, intentionally interferes or attempts to interfere with the free exercise by the Legislative Assembly of its authority, or with the free exercise by any member of the Legislative Assembly of the member’s duties or authority as such member, or as a member of a committee of the Legislative Assembly is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for 3 years.#
Crisafulli and the LNP’s campaign to win seats in Brisbane was thrown off course by the issue of abortion, inflamed by crossbencher Robbie Katter declaring he would introduce a private member’s bill to wind back the legislation if the LNP won.
The last thing the ultra-disciplined Crisafulli needs is someone like McGain – or his disciples – to stoke the debate anew.
