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		<title>The Christian Right and the 2007 Election</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2007/12/11/the-christian-right-and-the-2007-election/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2007/12/11/the-christian-right-and-the-2007-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The remarkable victory of Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party in the 2007 Federal Election brings to an end 11 years of conservative rule under John Howard. Much of the Howard government’s rhetoric revolved around claims of growth and national prosperity. But for many Australians there was a sense of unease during the Howard years with its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Christian Values Checklist &#8211; 2007 NSW State Election</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2007/03/09/australian-christian-values-checklist-2007-nsw-state-election/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2007/03/09/australian-christian-values-checklist-2007-nsw-state-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An &#8216;Australian Christian Values Checklist&#8216; has been published by a number of Religious Right groups in order to assist prospective voters at the NSW state election to be held on 24 March 2007.
The introduction to this checklist claims that:
In the 2001 census, 68% [of] Australians identified themselves as Christians. This summary of the positions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family values</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/08/09/family-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Age film critic Tom Ryan recently wrote an article about why younger teenagers should be allowed to see the &#8216;R&#8217;-rated movie 2:37. (&#8216;Why my girl should watch this movie&#8217;, 30 Jul. 2006)
Among other things, he said this:
 My wife and I have tried to bring [our daughter] up as an individual, someone who is aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melbourne &#8216;Age&#8217; boosts Australian Family Association</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/08/02/melbourne-age-boosts-australian-family-association/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/08/02/melbourne-age-boosts-australian-family-association/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you regard the Australian Family Association (AFA) as an &#8216;authority&#8217; on anything? For the uninitiated, the AFA is the &#8216;family policy&#8217; arm of the late B. A. Santamaria&#8217;s National Civic Council (NCC) i.e. it&#8217;s a conservative Catholic political pressure group and, as far as I&#8217;m aware, has never claimed to be anything else. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More anti-family worldviews</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/21/more-anti-family-worldviews/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/21/more-anti-family-worldviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ According to the Christian Right, families are the closest thing we have on earth to the heavenly social order. Every member is devoted to all other members and there&#8217;s nothing we&#8217;d rather do than promote their interests through our own self-sacrifice. So I had to laugh when I read these comments about wills and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Right invective</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/03/religious-right-invective/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/03/religious-right-invective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A critic of this website &#8211; sadly, there are such people &#8211; recently entreated us to use less &#8216;invective&#8217; against the organisations we so justly criticise. Now, apart from an occasional (very witty) jibe, I don&#8217;t think we do throw much invective around here, if you take &#8216;invective&#8217; to mean &#8216;abusive rhetoric&#8217; (Oxford dictionary).
Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protestants against contraception</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/06/16/protestants-against-contraception/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/06/16/protestants-against-contraception/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Right]]></category>
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We see a direct connection between the practice of contraception and the practice of abortion. The mind-set that invites a couple to use contraception is an anti-child mind-set. So when a baby is conceived accidentally, the couple already have this negative attitude toward the child. Therefore seeking an abortion is a natural outcome. We oppose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kerrie Allen and Helen Woodall</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/02/09/kerrie-allen-and-helen-woodall/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/02/09/kerrie-allen-and-helen-woodall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evangelicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Kerrie Allen, research officer for the Australian Family Association, has a rather warped view of recent Australian history. According to her recent News Weekly feature article &#8216;Whatever has gone wrong with sex?&#8217; (4 Feb. 2006):
 &#8216;Sex&#8217; has been redefined almost out of recognition during the past 20 years.

She emphasises elsewhere that &#8216;a massive shifting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A difficult agenda: can the Religious Right achieve its goals?</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2005/12/19/a-difficult-agenda-can-the-religious-right-achieve-its-goals/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2005/12/19/a-difficult-agenda-can-the-religious-right-achieve-its-goals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Voluntary Euthanasia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1968, Melbourne journalist Keith Dunstan published a wonderful book called Wowsers (i.e. obsessive puritans). Evangelicals claim that the word &#8216;wowser&#8217; is merely an acronym for the slogan &#8216;We only want social evils remedied/removed&#8217;, but this is false &#8211; see Dunstan&#8217;s first chapter for a more accurate etymology.
In his book, Dunstan examined all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; Disaster: &#8216;Salt Shakers&#8217; rides again</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2005/11/19/the-desperate-housewives-disaster-salt-shakers-rides-again/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2005/11/19/the-desperate-housewives-disaster-salt-shakers-rides-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Right]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having learnt nothing from their  unsuccessful assault on The L Word in 2004, Peter and Jenny Stokes of the Salt Shakers (SS) organisation set their sights a little higher this year and took on the Desperate Housewives juggernaut.
With their customary flair for understatement the Stokes&#8217; asked their readers:
 What could be worse than Channel [...]]]></description>
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