IT shouldn't surprise that La Trobe University's Roz Ward, one of the founders of the radical LGBTI Safe Schools Coalition program, has been forced to resign from a state government advisory role for calling the Australian flag "racist" and suggesting it should be replaced by a socialist-inspired "red one".
Ward is a long-time member of Victoria's Socialist Alliance and a committed Marxist who believes capitalism must be overthrown to make way for a workers' paradise. 
Ward, when defending the controversial gender and sexuality program, argues: "LGBTI oppression and heteronormativity are woven into the fabric of capitalism" and "It will only be through a revitalised class struggle and revolutionary change that we can hope for the liberation of LGBTI people". In the same speech, titled "The Role of the Left for LGBTI Rights"and given at a 2015 Marxism Conference, Ward argues "Marxism offers both the hope and the strategy needed to create a world where human sexuality, gender and how we relate to our bodies can blossom in extraordinary new and amazing ways that we can only try to imagine today".
ALP leader Bill Shorten, in defending the program, is wrong to say it is about stopping bullying. One only needs to read Ward's justification for the Safe Schools program to find further evidence of her revolutionary zeal. Ward admits, "Safe Schools Coalition is about supporting gender and sexual diversity, not about stopping bullying". She goes on to say it's about "sexual diversity, about same-sex attraction, about being transgender, about being lesbian, gay, bisexual".
While advocates justify the Safe Schools program as an anti-bullying program the reality is that it is a Trojan horse employed by Marxist and socialist-Left activists to force a radical lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex agenda on children and schools.
The Gender Fairy children's book tells kindergarten children that gender is fluid and limitless and that "Only you know whether you are a boy or a girl. No one can tell you". Activists argue that boys who self-identify as girls, regardless of their age, should be allowed to use girls' changing rooms and toilets. One of the activities associated with Safe Schools, called Freedom Fighters, asks students to imagine the Earth has been invaded by Martians and that the aliens reverse traditional gender roles and force girls to act as boys and boys to act as girls.
The students rebel and argue girls and boys can be whatever gender they want, singing: "You don't have to be a certain way just because you have a penis, you don't have to be a certain way just because you have a vagina". Apparently, gender is a social construct and your sexuality at birth has nothing to do with being a boy or a girl.
But no amount of Marxist wishful thinking and rhetoric from radical activists like Roz Ward can escape the fact that heterosexuality is the norm and that the overwhelming majority of Australians identify as being male or female. Reading the Safe Schools Coalition material and the impression is that Australians are bigoted and biased as the majority of us, supposedly, are homophobic, transphobic and heteronormative.
Ignored is the reality that Australia is one of the most egalitarian and tolerant nations on Earth. Surveys suggest that the majority of Australians support same-sex marriage, the Sydney Gay/Lesbian Mardi Gras is mainstream and 800 companies and businesses are happy to publicly commit themselves to changing the Marriage Act.
Politicians like Bob Brown and Senator Penny Wong, business people like the CEO of Qantas, Alan Joyce, sportsmen like Ian Thorpe and the former Justice of the High Court, Michael Kirby, are all accepted and praised even though they are not heterosexual.
As a result of the controversy surrounding the Safe Schools Coalition gender and sexuality program it was reviewed by the Commonwealth Government. In response the federal Education Minister, Simon Birmingham, restricted it to secondary schools and the more extreme LGBTI material and websites have been removed.
Instead of removing the offending aspects of the Safe Schools program Premier Daniel Andrews and the state Education Minister, James Merlino, have decided to fully fund the program, to make the uncensored version compulsory for Victorian schools and to allow schools across Australia to access the Victorian Safe Schools website.DR KEVIN DONNELLY IS A SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY