What is it that we are up against?
by Dr Lachlan Dunjey

ED. Dr Dunjey will will be appearing before the Melbourne hearings this coming Friday 4 May to argue for case for Doctors for the Family

A recap and why the battle for marriage is so significant

Humanity’s greatest crisis is the rebellion against what it means to be created in the Image of God, a rejection of who God is and what it means to be human.

Society’s greatest risk is the threat to marriage and family, the move to re-define male and female and thus ultimately destroy the fabric of society.

And the third great risk is to freedom of belief and to speak of what we believe – to even speak or show the truth re abortion or marriage or even quote scripture - and includes freedom of religion and liberty of conscience.

These three core elements are the basis of the Manhattan Declaration, the Westminster  Declaration and the Canberra Declaration.

And they are the basis of the new Breaking the Spiral of Silence at Life, Marriage, Religious Liberty.

Medicine is in the frontline of these battles:

• The push for legalised abortion with no restriction on time, method or reason
• Routine pre-natal diagnosis with implied embryo selection or abortion of the defective (even compulsory)
• Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide – unrestricted even for the non-dying (even compulsory)
• Re-defining the doctor-patient relationship to providers of medical services on consumer demand
• Overriding of doctor’s liberty of conscience with compulsory participation e.g. in abortion referral
• The selective repression of truly informed consent especially the abortion links with breast cancer and post-abortion syndrome
• Destructive embryo research; cloning; mixing of animal and human genes
• Definition of death particularly with reference to organ transplantation
• The health implications of re-defining marriage with respect to the effect on children, the destruction of the traditional family with a mother and a father, and restriction of freedom to bring up our children with our values
• The threats to freedom of expression in writing and speaking what we consider to be logic and truth especially with respect to medical aspects of marriage and family, sexuality and abortion. Threats include hate mail and personal accusation – even black-listing of doctors on Facebook

Doctors4Family has made submissions to the Senate (sub 229) and House of Reps on the medical aspects and implications of changing the Marriage Act to include homosexual couples and since publication of this on the Senate website we have been subject to written abuse from people pushing for change.

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News & Commentaries
May2 Nick Xenophon made a damning report on Malaysia election process. More surprising the Senator who head a delegation of international observers that include Indonesia and Pakistan, countries that would not normally expected to have a better system than Malaysia, commented that the determination of electrol sizes ranging from a population of 7000 to over 100,000 cannot be considered democratic.
watch the report by malaysiakini.tv

read I stand here because this is the day of destiny for Malaysia (including BBC original broadcast that had been cut when shown on a Malaysian channel)

Apr5 WA final push to ban Prostitution will rest on two women MPs and two Liberal backbenchers working together to put the final touches to the Bill amending the legislation governing it. The objective is to place the liability from the women to the clients - a model used in Sweden with some success.
source: WAtoday

Mar13 ABC taken off radio presenter for doing a voiceover for Queensland MP Bob Katter's Australian Party advert which contained the party's anti-gay marriage stand. State party leader Aidan McLindon issued a statement calling on the federal communications miniter, Stephen Conroy, to reinstate Ms Susanne McGill, after it was revealed she did the voiceover. "This sort of vilification should not be tolerated. We lived in Queensland, not Russia", said Mr McLindon.
source: WAtoday

Feb29 Ps Daniel Nalliah formed new political party, Rise Up Australia. Rev Dr Daniel Nalliah of Catch the Fire Ministries caught the attention of the press in 2002 when he was charged for vilification of Muslims but was subsequently dropped on appeal. Of Sri Lankan background his party policy principles include:
Keep Australia Australian! Protect Australia from multi-culturalism. We are MULTI-ETHNIC -Many races- one culture. NO Islamic (Sharia) law.
Protect traditional family unit - mother, father and children.
Protect children from homosexuality.
Not surprisingly the head of Ethnic Councils condemned Ps Nalliah's move as destabilising to existing government policy.
<listen to Ps Nalliah's interview on 6PR WA with Howeard Sandler>

Feb16 Violent Video Games. In almost every case the perpetrator of mass killings in civil society has some link to violent video games. On Dec 6 the Federal Government brought in legislation to adult-rate violent video games effective from 2013. Will the legislation be enough to contain such damaging violence? A photo gallery of some of these games may help with your assessment <view>.

Jan16 US Supreme Court rules 9-0 for Churches in landmark religious freedom case. It ruled unanimously in favor of a church’s right to be itself, and its freedom to assign its ministries. Church employees cannot sue for employment discrimination under this 'ministerial exception' to anti-discrimination laws and a setback to President Obama's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“Allowing anti-discrimination lawsuits against religious organizations could end up forcing churches to take religious leaders they no longer want. Such action interferes with the internal governance of the church, depriving the church of control over the selection of those who will personify its beliefs.” - Chief Justice John Roberts.
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Jan13 Same-sex marriage activists taking actions on court, that is, the Margaret Court Arena at the coming Australia Open in protest against the views expressed by pastor Margaret Court for expression her view that same-sex marriage is unhealthy and unnatural. Activists are planning to unfurl 'rainbow flags' as their sign of protest. In response to the planned protest pastor Margaret has this to say, "I actually love homosexual people, I do not have anything against them. It's just my view and it's in the scriptures ... The Bible will always be the TV guide to my life."
source: WAToday.com.au

Nominated Rev Margaret Court as an Austrialian National Living Treasure

Dec 3 Labor voted in favour of same-sex marriage in defiance of the warning within the Labor delegates of electorate backlashs and the Pandora's box of social chaos that will be opened when marriage is redefined.
ED: No children can be produced from a same sex marriage. Where will the shortfall in working Australians coming from to upkeep the ageing population? This is a question skipped in the debates. Europe had gone into that same path much earlier and the population void is been filled by immigrants. Not unlike the measures taken today by central banks to print more currency to overcome the GFC woes of today the future generations will be made to pay for the convenience of a few of today's generation.

Read also: Kevin Rudd's sister quit Labor Party over same-sex marriage

Bill Muehlenberg's Commentary which include Labor's Barry Cohen criticism of his party

Nov 28 The Syrian Church & Arab Spring uprising. Behind the news of violence and Arab League sanctions of President Assad's crackdown on demonstrators the future of the Syrian Church is very much ignored. Unlike the Coptics in Egypt the Syrian Christians, though forming proportion (10%) to the total population, had not known to be supportive of the uprising. Already threats against the Church had been made by leaders in the uprising. The believers in Antioch, the Syrian city where missionary efforts were centered during Paul's time, were as credited for being called Christians for the very first time (Acts 11:26). Syria had also served as a sanctuary for fleeing Iraqi Christians. Should the little buffer that Christian in Syria now had against an all out Muslim aggression against Israel be further weakened the sign is ominous for Israel. Turkey (the nation from the north) and Syria are close allies.

Nov 2 WA government introduces bill to legalise prostitution in 'tolerated zones'. According to a report from ACL legalising brothels, contrary to the intention, only increases the harms of the prostitution industry. The legalisation of prostitution in other Australian states has failed. Despite brothels being legalised in 1999 in Queensland, the University of Queensland estimates that 90 per cent of prostitution in that state remains illegal. The problem of human trafficking remains closely linked with prostitution. Legalising prostitution also sends the message that the purchase of a woman for sex is acceptable and tolerated by the government. It tells men that it is okay to buy women and use them for sex.
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Sex Slavery by Four Corners

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