Is it “vile” to observe that a child, wherever possible, deserves the love of both a mother and a father?

It seems so in this post-same-sex marriage world.

Last week, Family First took the decision to speak up for the rights of the child against a culture that no longer cares for our most vulnerable.

Matilda’s captain Sam Kerr and her fiancé Kristie Mewis, took to social media to announce the birth of Mewis’s baby boy, Jagger.

The two plan to raise Jagger as if he was a product of their couple relationship.

Sadly, Jagger’s Dad does not feature in the loved-up couple’s Instagram post announcing Jagger’s arrival.

Rupert Murdoch’s News.com.au website slammed me as “vile” for pointing out the rights of the child when it comes to same-sex couples like Kerr and Mewis depriving their child of his Dad.

“No child should be deliberately deprived of their father. Children aren’t lifestyle accessories – they’re human beings with rights,” I wrote on behalf of Family First on the party’s blog and social media platforms.

 “When the cultural elites cheer on choices that sideline dads, who’s left standing for the child?”

Instead of engaging with this point, Murdoch journalist Ben Talintyre called me a politician (I might aspire to be one but currently I’m not) and slammed me as “vile”.

Talintyre could have mounted an argument about why fathers and mothers are unnecessary when it comes to same-sex parenting but chose demonisation over debate.

So much for objective journalism. It’s another reason droves no longer trust the legacy media.

Talintyre then wrote: “Shelton was unsurprisingly one of the leading voices of the ‘No’ campaign against same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017”.

So what?

But in Talintyre’s world view my involvement in the ‘No’ campaign explains is enough to explain why my views are “vile”.

If Talintyre exercised some journalist curiosity, he might have discovered that people like me warned that children would lose rights under same-sex marriage law.

He might have discovered that this was repeatedly denied by the leaders of the ‘Yes’ campaign.

Love is love, they said. The idea of “consequences” was a red herring, the likes of Alex Greenwich, Christine Forster and Anna Brown said.

Whether it is Sam Kerr celebrating fatherlessness or newly re-elected Liberal Tim Wilson pushing for commercial surrogacy to be legalised so homosexual men can rent wombs and buy babies, Family First will always stand up for the rights of the child.

A society that does not speak for the voiceless ceases any claim of being a civil society.

Family First is pleased to see pushback on the LGBTIQA+ political agenda with Alliance for Responsible Citizenship founder Jordan Peterson arguing for public policy to again preference the monogamous, heterosexual married couple.

Until politicians have the courage to take this up, kids’ rights will continue to come second.

Action: Join the fight for kids’ rights, become a Family First supporter today.