article_snippet: The 40-second spot starts with a mother at a park saying: 'We hear a lot about marriage equality, but what about equality for kids?'
article_snippet: Dr David Gend, president of the Australian Marriage Forum and a family doctor based in Toowoomba, Queensland, says in the commercial that 'so-called marriage equality forces a child to miss out on a mother or a father'.
article_snippet: That's not equality; that's not marriage,' Dr Gend says.
article_snippet: The first point for us is that marriage equality and same-sex couples having children are two different equations,' GLRL Co-Convenor Justin Koonin told Daily Mail Australia. 'Same-sex couples already can and do have children - marriage equality is not going to change that. '
article_snippet: GLRL Co-Convenor Justin Koonin also said most Australians could see through claims that marriage equality disadvantages children, and that most had 'moved on' from that discussion. '
article_snippet: The majority of evidence shows there is no disadvantage to children with same-sex parents, and in fact most are slightly better off than average.'
article_snippet: Dr David Gend, president of the Australian Marriage Forum says in the commercial that 'so-called marriage equality forces a child to miss out on a mother or a father'.
article_snippet: The controversial Australian Marriage Forum commercial starts with a mother at a park saying: 'We hear a lot about marriage equality, but what about equality for kids?'
highlights_snippet: Dr David Gend says marriage equality 'forces inequality' on children .
  