The director of a bioethics centre funded by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane has claimed that Australian advocates of marriage equality’s real agenda is to “rid society of the institution of marriage”.

On the front page of the Catholic Leader newspaper, Queensland Bioethics Centre bioethicist Ray Campbell said allowing same-sex couples to wed would constitute discrimination “on a massive scale” against married heterosexuals.

“The advocates of same-sex marriage want to create a new public institution and they want to call this new institution ‘marriage’,” said Campbell, who claimed the issue raised the question of whether clergy could be sued for refusing to marry gay couples, and whether Catholic priests would find themselves in “cooperation with an immoral law” if they continued to marry people under an amended Marriage Act.

Campbell told the Star Observer “gay literature” backed up his claims.

“Some of the advocates for gay marriage from the gay community are quite clear that they don’t believe in marriage as an institution and they understand that in extending marriage to same-sex couples they undermine the very rationale for marriage,” Campbell said.

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