Anti-abortion keynote speech sparks walkout during Catholic uni graduation

University officials were reportedly worried about what to expect from de Bruyn, who was SDA national secretary from 1978 to 2014, given his public opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion, gay rights and IVF.For years the SDA was a major obstacle to the ALP legalising same-sex marriage.Students walked out en-masse during the speech.“Marriage between a man and a woman was instituted by God at the origin of humanity in the Garden of Eden, as the book of Genesis in the Bible tells us,” de Bruyn told students on Monday.“Since then, every society on Earth at all times has recognised marriage as being between a man and a woman.”During his speech, de Bruyn recalled how in the 1980s researchers at Monash University developed “the technique of IVF for infertile women”.“In the controversy that followed, the media asked me for my opinion,” de Bruyn said. “I responded that it was morally wrong to deliberately bring children into the world in an environment where the child…