Please don't let labor preference family first

You may also want to visit www.pleaselabordontpreferencefamilyfirst.com, a petition to the Federal Labour Party, asking them not to give senate preferences to the socially conservative Family First Party in the upcoming federal election. In 2004, Labour preferences helped elect a Victorian Family First senator.

The Family First party believes that “Family grows out of heterosexual relationships between men and women” (source). While their policy documents aren’t overtly homophobic, they are conspicuously silent on gay and lesbian families (at best) and covertly homophobic in their constant touting of the “loving mother and father” as the creators of a safe and happy home, ideal for raising children (source) at worst. I haven’t read all of their policy documents, only the two listed here, but they appear to be a fairly right-wing bunch of ... well let’s leave it there shall we?