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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Queensland premier plans to strip surrogacy rights from gay couples to satisfy right-wing elements of his party, civil libertarians say.
Campbell Newman’s government will exclude gay couples, singles and heterosexual de facto couples in new relationships from laws that allow altruistic surrogacy.
The move goes against Mr Newman’s pre-election statement that he would not be changing surrogacy laws.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie announced the plan Thursday night, as parliament passed amendments to water down the former Labor government’s same-sex civil unions laws.
At the end of debate on those amendments, which sparked angry protests from gay rights campaigners, Mr Bleijie said changes to the Surrogacy Act were next.
“We will be repealing the provisions in the Surrogacy Act that deal with same sex couples, de factos of less than two years and singles,” he told parliament.
Queensland Council of Civil Liberties president Michael Cope said the Newman government seemed content to violate the principle of equal treatment regardless of sexuality.
“We are concerned the government is kowtowing at this early stage to the more right wing elements of the LNP,” he told AAP.
“This raises concerns about what they’re going to do to rights in the future.”
Mr Newman has told the Brisbane Times the surrogacy changes should come as no surprise, citing comments LNP members made during the original parliamentary debate when altruistic surrogacy was legalised in 2010.
During that debate, the LNP’s member for Condamine Ray Hopper worried the bill would see same-sex parents using babies like “pets” to gain popularity, and lead to confusion at public toilets.
And then opposition leader John-Paul Langbroek, who is now Mr Newman’s education minister, argued Labor’s laws were a “step in the direction towards social engineering”.
Cameron Dick, who served as attorney-general in the ousted Labor government, said the Newman government’s changes would re-criminalise surrogacy and continue the marginalisation of the gay community.
“We’re going back to the past and I just don’t think that speaks of human relationships in the 21st century,” he told ABC radio.
He said Mr Newman “cannot stand (up) to that conservative right wing in his party which says we want a society where … you can’t be gay, you can’t be black …”
The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed the amendments to same-sex unions, and the plan to stop single and same-sex couples from “acquiring babies” through surrogacy.
“This is the right thing and is in the best interest of the child, something the state is bound to uphold under the UN Convention on the rights of the child,” ACL Queensland director Wendy Francis said in a statement on Friday.
But the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties said there was no evidence that showed same-sex couples weren’t good parents.
“With heterosexual couples, if they aren’t raising children properly we take them off them, well the same principle should apply to same-sex couples,” he said.
The Surrogacy Act was passed by a Labor government in February 2010.
The act decriminalised altruistic surrogacy – where a woman agrees to bear a child for another for no financial gain – but surrogacy for commercial gain remains a crime.
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