I identify myself as a welsh cross dresser transing into a lesbian poached egg. This is my human right

David Skinner, UK

All government legislation, forms and documents have had words such as Mother, Father and Spouse removed; being replaced with Domestic Partner.

A mother who relinquishes her child for adoption can specify the religion of the adopting couple, but not the sexual preferences.

The use of facilities for the opposite sex at public baths in the ACT is no longer an offence, consequently the penalty was also removed.

What I have mentioned is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

Carolyn Mongan

page 15, TRUE STORIES
“My boyfriend wanted me to keep the baby, but my mum said that I was too young to settle down. Luckily I went to young people’s clinic and the counsellor helped me to think through how I felt and what I wanted Part of me did WANT the baby, but mainly to show my mum that I was grown up. I had an abortion because I didn’t think I should have a child until I could look after myself better. I think being a mother is just too important for it be something that just happens to you “
SHONA 17

David Skinner, UK

When ever I attend a medical appointment, I am asked do I have any history in the famly of this problem. My answer is always “I don’t know, I was adopted.”

I have read many times that the world is a reflection of the church. Bearing in mind what the world is like at the moment, we are in a total mess because the leadership has lost the plot as in Jesus was loving and accepting so its OK to ordain practicing homosexuals.

Another aspect is that doing the same thing every week and expecting a different result is insanity. There a very few churches that don’t do the same thing every week so it becomes a closed shop to those who are not interested in self serving banality.

Even the evangelical/pentecostal expression is up the creek without a paddle because their main focus is themselves and that is anathama to God.

Why do I say that? Because 95% of church income is spent on themselves. In the NT church, income was spent on others who had needs and evangelism.

Finally in defense of the church, it has been said time and time again we have nothing to worry about because God is still in charge and he will win in the end and his church will be triumphant.

I agree totally with that sentiment, but putting up a building, employing someone to run the organisation so we don’t have to get too committed, raising a cheer squad that will be entertained by a regular few every Sunday morning does not make you a church.

A church is where two or three gather in His name, have died to self, take up their cross daily and are committed to the kingdom of God regardless of the consequences. It is organic, not organised. The guy in charge is Jesus himself and the chief operating officer is the Holy Spirit.

How many so called churches operate like this? If they don’t, they are not the church so don’t put your hopes in a failed system.

Roger Marks

This, by any current standards, would be deemed to be an offensive and homophobic statement. But who said it? None other than the present UK Lord Chancellor and Secretary of Statement for Justice, Jack Straw, back in 1998 on the BBC Today programme.

Obviously he was not on the same page as the Marxist and anarchist moles burrowing quietly but oh so determinedly at the heart of Tony Blair’s government. But he soon caught up with the rest of them and sold his soul for a bowl of pottage. A man of Straw indeed.

Tony Blair’s election slogan back in 1997 was Education Education Education. The populace naively thought he was talking about improving literacy and numeracy whilst all the time he was talking about Marxist re-education.

If there are any readers here with UK passports please sign the petition before Britain completely capsizes: petitions.number10.gov.uk/harryhammond/

Anglican Mainstream has also posted my petition which can be read more fully here: www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=20848#more-20848

David Skinner, UK

Ewan McDonald.

To be salt and light is to proclaim Christ faithfully. To proclaim Christ, is to be salt and light. These are not really different operations.

Unbelief is far more than a symptom of the church’s failure. There is the mystery of iniquity. There are the dynamics of the powers of darkness. Jesus himself marveled at the unbelief he found among his own people.

So, I am not sure a lot is to be gained by passing ‘the buck’ to the church, or standing in judgment upon their failures. Christ ‘walks among’ the churches and deals with them. What happens to Christian nations, when they spiral downward, is lamentable. But it is also complex. Others who make up the nation are also responsible.

Further, biblically we are all at worship, in one way or another – attending to idols, or to Christ’s action. So ‘doing nothing’ is … well, impossible. cheers.

Trevor Faggotter

Unbelief is only another symptom of the church’s failure especially when a once majority Christian nation backslides to the point where we are today. When you go into a darkened room and you turn on the light switch and the room stays dark, do you curse the darkness or try and fix the light?

It’s not just proclaiming the Gospel (a role the church is doing very badly at present), but also being salt and light to society (a role that is virtually non-existent at present) that the church should be doing. So the buck really stops with all of us who make up the church.

Ewan McDonald.

Needless to say, I think you both are right. Ewan is right to suggest that we are losing time and time again because the church is asleep at the wheel, and really is apathetic and indifferent to all these political and social changes going on. As to this particular bill that we battled last year, I suspect that most Christians in Victoria did not even know about it, and of those who did, only a small percentage actually did something about it. (And sadly an even smaller percentage of believers would have in fact supported this anti-family and anti-child legislation!)

Yet as I said to Jillian, many believers were involved in that particular battle, but we still lost. So Trevor is quite right to suggest that there certainly are groups and ideologies out there which are actively warring against us on all sorts of levels. We need to be aware of them and know how to counter them.

So both fronts need to be targeted: the outward opposition which is so often anti-faith, anti-family and anti-life; and the inward apathy, indifference and carelessness of so many who call themselves followers of Christ.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch