Dear Friends of Saint George Taybeh, I hope you are having a wonderful and blessed summer. While people across the globe are enjoying these summer months with the freedom to travel, American citizens with a Palestinian background are not allowed to use the airport in Tel Aviv to visit their homeland. It was frustrating to read this account I am sharing …
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Despite years of relentless media and celebrity championing of same-sex marriage, Australians still think it is a low order issue and want more informed debate. This morning’s release of a Sexton Marketing poll that found same-sex marriage ranked 13th of the political issues people were most concerned with. Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Lyle Shelton said ACL-commissioned polling by JWS …
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SAME-SEX ‘MARRIAGE’ DISCRIMINATES AGAINST KIDS As Federal Parliament reconvenes, in a week that will see yet another same-sex ‘marriage’ Bill tabled, the Australian Marriage Forum has placed a full page Ad in The Australian, challenging the injustice of so-called “marriage equality”. “It is time to take the gay lobby down from their moral high horse”, said Dr David van Gend, …
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The U.S. state of Kentucky has begun imposing a religious test on volunteer pastor counselors in its youth division, insisting that they refrain from calling homosexuality “sinful” and dismissing those who cannot bend their religious faith to accommodate the state requirements. The policy was uncovered by Liberty Counsel, which has sent a letter to Bob Hayter, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Juvenile …
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Among those sections that the gospels of Matthew and Luke-independent of Mark-have in common, almost all are directly didactic. That is to say, those sections almost invariably consist of the explicit teachings of Jesus, with no attention to events in his life. Those shared sections convey, for instance, the sort of material we find in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount …
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THE homosexual marriage lobby likes to claim it plants its rainbow-coloured flags firmly on the summit of the high moral ground. Diversity has been its catch cry. But it is quick to stiffly opposing viewpoints. Like those of the new Marriage Alliance. The group, launched last weekend, supports the Marriage Act and wants to start a proper debate on same …
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Calls this week by a UK Government MP for anti-terrorism legislation to be used to silence believers in traditional marriage should serve as a warning to Australian parliamentarians about where this political agenda is heading overseas. Mark Spencer, the Conservative MP for Sherwood recently said in a letter to a constituent that controversial new Extremism Disruption Orders should be used …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.