Russell Grigg, Creation Ministries International Australia (formerly Answers in Genesis), ‘Answers for Kids No. 31′, Creation, Mar.-May 2006, 45:

Some people say that ‘God used evolution’. But the Bible makes it clear that He did not. Just look at the differences between Genesis and man’s theory of evolution. God’s record of creation in Genesis [includes:] Earth [created] before the sun and stars …; Plants created before the sun …; Man and dinosaurs lived together …

[Steady on, Russell. I'm still coming to terms with 'Plants created before the sun.']

Peter Stokes, Salt Shakers, E-News, 22 Mar. 2006, regarding the SA state election:

What [the Australian Democrats] call ‘progressive’ (pro-homosexual, pro-abortion etc.) is, of course, actually regressive, so we can be thankful for their irradiation.

[By 'irradiation', I think he means 'eradication' - but it's hard to tell with Peter.]

Helen Woodall, editorial in New Life, 16 Mar. 2006:

Then there was Justice Michael Kirby’s famous decision in the Two Dannys [Victorian religious tolerance] case that had over 100 mistakes in what he handed down.

[This case is nowhere near the High Court yet but Kirby's reputation among members of the Religious Right is so abysmal that he's now being blamed for decisions he hasn't even made! A tiny apology for this monumental Freudian slip was tucked away in the back pages of 'New Life' a couple of weeks later.]

Clifford Wilson, ‘The Monastery of St James on Mount Ararat’, New Life, 16 Mar. 2006:

It is a historical fact that this monastery was located on Mount Ararat and artefacts from Noah’s Ark were stored here for centuries.

[Thanks, Cliff. And according to your fellow creationist Russell Grigg, plants were created before the sun. I don't really think I can cope with too many more of these 'facts'.]

Dr David van Gend, anti-abortion activist, letter in News Weekly, 19 Nov. 2005, regarding the abortion drug RU 486:

There is something sick with our culture when a woman [such as Liberal MP Sharman Stone] uses the parliament to promote abortifacient poisons that were once - like rue and tansy - the province of brothel madams and medieval hags.

[That's very hurtful, David. I happen to be descended from a long line of medieval hags.]

Frank Gashumba, review of What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us by Danielle Crittenden, News Weekly, 4 Feb. 2006:

The passage of time has revealed the long-term consequences of the feminist juggernaut … The baleful results are increasingly apparent … [Crittenden] details the manifold follies of feminism and the disaster it has inflicted on society … The author tips a cold bucket of water over today’s young women, who are spaced-out and living in a psychedelic world of their mothers’ creation. She snaps them back to their senses and proceeds to remind them of their past ridiculous antics, embarrassing and humiliating them … She mercilessly ridicules the high farce of feminism …

[Gee, Frank, Ms Crittenden certainly sounds like a nice person. Tell me, does she file her teeth to a point?]

Michael Kiely ‘All You Need Is Love’, Fatherhood Foundation e-newsletter, 23 Jan. 2006:

Sometimes I think to myself that Louisa gives my life meaning. Famous Australian novelist Patrick White described his partner Manoly as ‘my sweet reason’.

[The Fatherhood Foundation were instrumental in persuading the Federal Government to outlaw gay marriage in 2004. Now they're using a gay couple to illustrate the joys of a relationship. What a weird mob!]

Salt Shakers website - www.saltshakers.org.au - 30 Dec. 2005:

…[A] recent letter to the editor stated that ‘almost half of the heterosexual unions that take place today end in divorce’. This is not so. Detailed ABS statistics show that in 2003 there were 4.2 million married couples in Australia and 53,000 divorces. That means that less than 1.5% of all marriages failed in that year. This shows that the vast majority of marriages are happy …

[Would the author of this piece kindly report back to fourth grade for remedial maths and to kindergarten for remedial logic. Thank you.]

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