THE Premier, Barry O’Farrell, will allow Liberal MPs a conscience vote on a bill to legalise same-sex marriage, which a cross-party group of MPs will introduce this year. Liberal, Nationals, Labor and Greens MPs have formed a working party to draw up a bill to allow gay and lesbian couples in NSW to marry, if legislation before Federal Parliament is voted down, …
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A GREEK ORTHODOX DAD SUES SCHOOL BOARD
A Hamilton (Canada) -area Christian father is suing his children’s public school board after they refused to allow him to withdraw his children from controversial lessons on homosexuality. Dr. Steve Tourloukis, a dentist, says the suit comes after he has been asking for accommodation from the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board since Sept. 2010. A member of the Greek Orthodox Church, he …
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Dearly beloved readers of Mode of Life, Our message today is directed to our fellow Australian brethren and more specifically to that of the Melbourne faithful. During the course of this week, within the dead of night and without much publicity, our Federal politicians are voting upon the question of same-sex marriage. Because of this fact, this matter has gone …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVoUGQ285g0] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVPtsYb9rkY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL5E8B25EA15D80D47] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-xP6tNkDI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL5E8B25EA15D80D47] Foreword After many decades of careful lobbying and raising the profile of their own interests, the gay movement and its activists have forcibly and successfully brought to the fore of public attention in many countries, questions over the definition of marriage. The discussion that they have sought to bring about, has been couched in …
Read More »A Story About A Life: Anti-Abortion
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3WHP7Q5dp8] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2KsU_dhwI] Archbishop Stylianos of Australia: On Abortion Dearly beloved, With this letter, I wish to address in particular the sensitivity and charity of all the faithful of our Archdiocese in order to remind the sacredness of human life, which apparently we have not yet taken as seriously as we should. I do not refer to the daily …
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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.