In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr James Arm­strong says he will sup­port any leg­is­la­tion that ad­vo­cates same-sex re­la­tion­ships. De­liv­er­ing his con­tri­bu­tion in the Up­per House on the Chil­dren Bill on Fri­day, Arm­strong said he men­tioned a very long time ago "that my po­si­tion is that I sup­port and will sup­port any leg­is­la­tion that comes in front of me that ad­vo­cates same-sex re­la­tion­ships."

Arm­strong point­ed out that the Bill by it­self can­not have the ef­fect re­quired and chil­dren, par­ents and teach­ers need to be ed­u­cat­ed. "We can­not pro­tect our chil­dren in a warped so­ci­ety." He al­so sug­gest­ed that cer­tain claus­es in the Bill be re­viewed, in par­tic­u­lar, the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of child pornog­ra­phy and a child fre­quent­ing or re­sid­ing in a broth­el.

"We al­so seem to have an ob­ses­sion with sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion. I think be­fore it gets to the busi­ness of sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion one can com­mit an act that is an of­fence." Arm­strong drew ref­er­ence to a pa­per done by the In­sti­tute of Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies called Break­ing the Si­lence, which the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine, had in its pos­ses­sion, that showed in 2006 there were 160 cas­es of child sex­u­al abuse.

Of that fig­ure, Arm­strong said, 16 per cent were in­cest cas­es, with 85 per cent be­ing young girls. "We know that things are falling apart. We have failed as a so­ci­ety."