Salt Shakers E-News: Victoria – Final Vote On IVF Bill NEXT WEEK

Victoria’s Legislative Council is due to have the final third reading VOTE on the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Bill – giving  IVF for lesbians, homosexuals and single women NEXT WEEK – the FIRST week in DECEMBER.

This Bill gives IVF for lesbians, homosexuals and single women, allows them to be registered as ‘parents’ and opens up surrogacy.

After passing a second reading vote by 20 to 18, the Bill was sent off to the Legislation Committee for ‘review’. The Committee will report back to the Council by 1 December.
 
If you live in Victoria, it is vital that we contact our FIVE Members in the legislative Council to ask them to vote AGAINST the Bill.
 
Petition – A petition is being circulated – it highlights the serious consequences of the Bill in allowing people who have NO biological link to the child (a lesbian partner or homosexuals who ‘commission a surrogate child’) to be registered as ‘parents’.
The Bill ignores the rights of the child to be raised by its biological mother and father. (more…)

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Australian Committee Proposal To Pay Mothers to Abort Disabled Babies Compared To Nazis

By Hilary White

CANBERRA, November 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)

The Australian Parliamentary Group on Population and Development has been slammed by Queensland Senator Ron Boswell for holding to Nazi-style eugenic ideology on the abortion of disabled children.

“This revisiting of eugenics principles is repugnant to a society that prides itself on the contribution of all,” Boswell said.

The pro-abortion group had made a submission, signed by 41 Australian MPs, to the parliamentary committee that is examining the issue of abortion in Australia. The group said paying women a Medicare rebate for second-trimester abortions would save the government about $180,000 a year, due to the high costs of caring for handicapped babies who are allowed to be born. (more…)

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U.S. ‘Must Oppose’ Islamic ‘Anti-Defamation’ Demands Proponents ‘Will Continue To Push’ Agenda At U.N. In Coming Years

By Bob Unruh
 
A Heritage Foundation expert warns that the U.S. will need to maintain active opposition to plans for “religious anti-defamation” laws both within its borders and on an international scale, or face consequences.

In a report published on the foundation’s website,  Steven Groves said the U.S. “must remain wary of continuing efforts by U.N. member states to gain wider acceptance of the ‘defamation of religions’ concept.”

Proponents “will continue to push the ‘defamation of religions’ agenda at the U.N. Human Rights Council, the U.N. General Assembly, and at other international forums such as the April 2009 Durban Review Conference,” he warned.

Groves is the Heritage Foundation’s Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.

He also said within its own borders, the U.S. should refuse to recognize “a new legal cause of action that bans insults or criticism of religion,” because it would provide no benefit whatsoever. (more…)

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Urgent Petition For Lord’s Prayer To Continue In Our Parliaments!

Dear Friends and Family in Christ,

We at Catch the Fire Ministries are forwarding the following email from our Rise Up Australia coordinator in Canberra regarding a Federal Parliament Opening Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer Petition for your prayer and action!

As Bible-believing God-fearing Christians, we must not only pray, but rise up in Holy Spirit boldness with a united voice of action, to preserve Australia’s Christian Heritage, Foundation, and Destiny, from slipping further away toward a secular humanist, interfaith, anti-Biblical, anti-Christian path toward death, hell, and destruction!

Rising Up Australia and the Nations as His Kingdom Comes,

Jason Golden (more…)

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UN Vote: Rudd Breaks With Howard On Israel

By Phillip Hudson,

November 10, 2008

Israeli FlagAustralian FlagAUSTRALIA has switched its position to vote against Israel on two resolutions at the United Nations, ending the Howard government’s unswerving alignment with the United States and raising concern from the Jewish community.

The move also signals to the incoming Obama administration that the Rudd Government plans to take a different approach to the Howard government on the international stage.

In the weekend vote in New York, Australia supported a resolution calling on Israel to stop establishing settlements in the Palestinian territories and a resolution calling for the Geneva Conventions to apply in the Palestinian territories. (more…)

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Christian Counsellor Refusing To Give Advice On Sexual Problems To Homosexual Couples Loses Position With Relate

Gary McFarlaneGary McFarlane, a Christian counsellor from Bristol, has been dismissed from his position at Relate after raising concerns about advising same sex couples on directive sexual therapy. Mr McFarlane had counseled same sex partnerships, but when it came to directive sex therapy, he felt that he would be directly encouraging sexual sin  For several years he has been able to successfully counsel couples, helping them to restore their relationships. He has always received positive feedback from supervisors and clients.  In 2007 Mr McFarlane, whilst training as a sex therapist, discussed the potential conflict with his supervisor. However managers at Relate did not offer to accommodate Mr McFarlane’s position but instead suspended him in December 2007 for what they believed was a breach of the equal opportunities policy. As a result, Mr McFarlane lost all his clients and was unable to continue counselling. In January 2008 he was reinstated on the basis that he would conform to the equal opportunities policy with the proviso that he could mention his concerns about sexual counselling in the future. However, a short time after returning to his job, complaints were made by employees and Mr McFarlane was called into a disciplinary meeting and eventually dismissed in March 2008 after his employers concluded that he had failed to adhere to the equal opportunities policy. Mr McFarlane was not given an opportunity to discuss his views and no attempt was made to acccommodate his beliefs, despite his success as a couple’s counsellor. (more…)

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Atheists Sue President Bush Over National Day Of Prayer

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The latest attempt by the country’s largest atheist group, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, to banish reliance on God in America, is coming in the form of a lawsuit against President George W. Bush, among others, for their propagation of the National Day of Prayer.  The intercessory day developed from America’s first official call to prayer in 1775 by the Continental Congress which included such members as: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. (more…)

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Prophecy For Sarah Palin

By Steve Strang

Sarah PalinIf you’re like me, you’ll be glued to the television tonight to watch the first vice- presidential debate, which is being held at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. The 90-minute debate between Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden will begin at 9 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on all major television networks.

I’ve publicly endorsed Sen. John McCain and Sarah Palin, so you know for whom I will be rooting. I’ve reported in the Strang Report how unfair the media has been to Gov. Palin, even ridiculing her Pentecostal background. Now we’ve learned that tonight’s moderator, Gwen Ifill of PBS, has written a pro-Obama book. So much for objectivity.

This is a call to pray for Sarah Palin. Read the incredible prophecy quoted below that is going around the Internet. At the end I tell about attending a huge Palin rally in Florida 10 days ago. Below, read about an important new book we just published by Perry Stone. (more…)

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The Secular Humanistic, Islamic, And Interfaith Attempt To Remove Lord’s Prayer From Australian Parliament

Speaker (Harry Jenkins) wants Lords Prayer out of the houseFollowing is an article that appeared all over the Australian Media regarding the Secular Humanistic, Islamic, and Interfaith attempt to remove the daily reading of the Lord’s Prayer from the Australian Parliament.

KEVIN Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull both dismissed calls yesterday to replace the Lord’s Prayer with an acknowledgement of Australia’s traditional Aboriginal owners at the daily opening of federal parliament.

The nation’s peak Muslim group and the Greens have backed moves to change the century-old tradition so as to be more inclusive of all Australians.

House of Representatives speaker Harry Jenkins called for debate about whether the prayer should be rewritten or replaced, saying MPs and the public had raised concerns about its relevance to 21st century Australia. (more…)

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US ELECTION 2008 – Obama Spells ‘Persecution,’ Warns Focus On The Family / Evangelical Christian Leader Dr. James Dobson

Dear Friends and Family in Christ around the World,

James Dobson1) As Bible-believing God-fearing Christians, we must keep praying that the Lord Jesus will increasingly open our spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear His Prophetic Word of Truth, what His Holy Spirit is saying to His Church in these perilous last days when even the very elect are being deceived left, right, and center!

Following is an alarming article with significant prophetic foresight from highly respected Focus on the Family Evangelical Christian Leader Dr. James Dobson, regarding a potential Obama administration in America!

ELECTION 2008 – Obama spells ‘persecution,’ warns Focus on the Family – Analysts see same-sex marriage, Fairness Doctrine on horizon (more…)

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Praise God For The ‘Reaping What We Have Sown’ Article By Pastor Danny Nalliah In Today’s Edition Friday 24th October Of The Australian Newspaper

Dear Friends and Family in Christ,

We at Catch the Fire Ministries thank the Lord that we were able to publish the article ‘Reaping what we have sown’ by Pastor Danny Nalliah in today’s (Friday 24th October) edition of The Australian newspaper, on page 4 under the section, “Nation and Government!”

Nearly 140,000 copies of this nationwide newspaper are circulated daily!

Article carried in The Australian newspaper – PDF File  (more…)

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Praying For John McCain And Sarah Palin To Become President And Vice-President / Prophetic Insight Regarding US Election By Lou Engle Of The Call

Dear Friends and Family in Christ,

Sarah PalinAs Bible-believing God-fearing Christians, we must unite in praying to our righteous Father in Heaven, ‘Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done’ in the upcoming and very critical election on November 4th in the US.

As the Body of Christ around the world we must pray in the Holy Spirit and the Truth of the Word of God that America will not make the same mistake as Australia and vote in Obama as their next President. The Democrats in the US are the Left of politics (like the ALP & Greens) and the Republicans are the Right of politics. (like the Liberal / National Coaltion)  Obama who is representing the Democrats, with his Islamic background, leftist ideologies and support for abortion, if elected, will drive America away from its Christian heritage and destiny.

Let us pray that the US will get a Republican President (John McCain) and not a Democrat (Barack Hussein Obama). (more…)

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Sharia Law Is ‘Not Fit For The UK’, Says A Labour Muslim MP

Labour MP Sadiq Khan Message: Labour MP Sadiq Khan said all Muslims should learn English – ‘the passport to participation in mainstream society’

A Labour Muslim minister has warned that Islamic law is too unsophisticated for Britain.

Sadiq Khan said women could be ‘ abused’ by sharia courts, which may give unequal bargaining power to the sexes.

He said: ‘The burden is on those who want to open up these courts to persuade us why they should.’

Mr Khan, who was made a community cohesion minister in this month’s Government reshuffle, rejected the argument that the courts could operate in the same way as the Jewish Beth Din courts.

He said Muslim life in Britain was not advanced enough to run a similar religious legal system.

The MP for Tooting in South London added: ‘I would be very concerned about sharia courts applying in the UK. (more…)

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Pastor Danny Interviewed By Major Talkback Radio Station In Perth Regarding The De-criminalisation Of Abortion In Victoria, The Church And Politics

Dear Friends and Family in Christ, Pastor Danny was recently interviewed on 6PR & 96fm Talkback Radio in Perth regarding the De-criminalisation of Abortion in Victoria, the Church and Politics.…

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RELAX, THE TRUTH HAS SURFACED – Climate Change

By Andrew Bolt – Herald Sun

Andrew BoltKEVIN Rudd’s global warming guru has finally – and reluctantly – exposed the con. Ignore everything the Government has told you.
The truth, conceded Professor Ross Garnaut last week, is that it really is cheaper for Australians to do nothing about global warming.

And, no, it’s not immoral to figure there’s no point spending big money to “stop” this warming when it won’t make a blind bit of difference.

No wonder the Rudd Government refuses to comment on Garnaut’s latest report, released on Friday. Much of the argument for its grand plan to make us slash emissions from 2010 has just been destroyed. (more…)

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