Peter Stokes, Salt Shakers, email to supporters, 19 Dec. 2007:

IVF and surrogacy for same-sex and single people will indeed create a STOLEN generation … [Some] children … will be raised by two mums or two dads living in unnatural, dysfunctional relationships. Children [will be] born with three mums and a dad … or any other combination that surrogacy and/or infertility treatment social engineers can dream up!

[Speaking of dreaming things up, Pete, you seem to be doing a pretty good job yourself.]

More Peter Stokes, ibid.:

When [Salt Shakers] appeared on Ch. 9’s ‘Sixty Minutes’ program some years ago, one scenario involved a very immature homosexual who ‘desperately wanted a baby’.

['Immature', eh? Glass houses, Peter, glass houses.]

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Right to Life Association (Margaret Tighe), RTLA News, Nov. 2007, 1, re asking major party candidates about their views on abortion, voluntary euthanasia etc.:

Don’t allow them to avoid a proper response as to how they would vote [on these issues] if elected to Parliament. For example, some might say – ‘Oh, I’m a Christian’, or ‘I go to church’ or ‘I’d really need to look at the legislation first’.

[What a great idea, Margaret. Making MPs vote on laws they've never seen. It'd save so much time.]

‘Researchers find sexual orientation can change’, Family World News (Rev. Fred Nile), Nov. 2007, 11:

C. S. Lewis said that science produced by Christians would have to be ‘perfectly honest. Science twisted in the interests of apologetics would be sin and folly.’

[This would be one of C. S. Lewis's better ideas. What a pity that the Christian Right, especially the creationist contingent, have totally ignored it.]

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Elaine Nile, Christian Democratic Party, ‘Elaine’s Perspective’, Family World News, Sept. 2007, 5:

Here is good advice: ‘Always speak as one who learns and not as one who knows.’ … [Two paragraphs later] God’s Word does not support sodomy in any way, any time. It calls this lifestyle an ABOMINATION!

[Elaine is known far and wide for her consistency. Or perhaps that's some other Elaine.]

‘Prayer Points’, Family World News, Sept. 2007, 8:

Please pray for spiritual protection over [Christian Democratic Party leaders] Fred [Nile] and Gordon [Moyes] over the month. ‘See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, because the days are evil.’ Eph 5:15, 16.

[I've been praying that one for years but it never seems to do the slightest good, they still behave like fools. Maybe it's my delivery.]

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Peter Sellick, Deacon Associate at St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Subiaco, WA, ‘The same tired old arguments from the unbelievers’, Online Opinion, 31 Jul. 2007:

Inheritors of the scientific revolution, if they are to have access to the rich imagery of biblical narrative, must learn to hold these two things in their mind at once, that the [gospel] stories often could not have happened as they are told and that these same stories hold the key to our humanity.

[Back to meaningless obfuscation again. Peter, I think I'd better introduce to you to Steve Cornell. At least he's intelligible.]

Jubilee Resources International, Jubilee News, Aug. 2007, 2:

Try JESUS! If you don’t like Him, the devil will always take you back.

[Ascribing the virtue of forgiveness to Satan, eh? Careful, something like that could land you in hell.]

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Nancy Campbell, ‘From Our Home to Yours’, Above Rubies, Mar. 2007 (distributed Jul. 2007), 2, quoting from a letter she has received:

Thanks to your ministry I am a more patient and loving mother. I finally understand what it means to be submissive to my husband and have repented of my sins in this area. I am joyfully embracing my role as mother, teacher, wife, cook and housekeeper. We have repented of our sin of birth control and my husband had a vasectomy reversal in July 2005 …

[Ma'am, the only sin of which you need to repent is slavishly following the advice in Above Rubies.]

Nancy Campbell, ‘Standing Power’, ibid., 8:

The morals of this world are going downhill,
Against God’s Holy Word and His divine will,
No longer black and white, it’s now mushy grey,
God’s eternal absolutes many shun today.

[Please, Nancy, spare us your abysmal poetry. It just has to be satanically inspired.]

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Ewan McDonald, comment on CultureWatch Secular Religion, 23 May 2007:

Cosmological evolution can be witnessed today as new stars form, but this does not prove a naturalistic origin. Rather, since the process of stellar evolution remains a mystery, a supernatural origin makes much more sense.

[Best example of a 'god of the gaps' argument I've seen for some time. Ewan, mate, you just don't get it, do you?]

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Mrs Amanda J. Tan, Doonside NSW, letter in Good Report, May/July 2007, 17:

Unless [Genesis] creation is taught in Australian schools, Australia will become more and more atheistic, truth will be only relative, and this will lead to the further decline in ethical values in Australia, and the further chaos and breakdown of our functioning society … The teaching of creation will help restore ethical values and decency and blessing in Australia.

[Amanda, why would the abandonment of science lead to anything other than a new Dark Age?]

Julie Jordan ‘The ABCs for a Lasting Marriage’, ibid., 20:

You might say that you don’t hear [God] speaking to you, but may I ask you: Have you done what He told you to do the last time you spent time with Him? Did He convict you about some sin that you are unwilling to give up? It could be gossiping, greed, malice, evil desires, envy, laziness, pride, arrogance, unwillingness to forgive, idolatry, hatred, to name a few.

['A few'! Kind of makes you wonder why a 'good' god would permit the existence of such a degraded creation. Must be one of those 'mysteries' that Christian theologians are so fond of running up against.]

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Senator Bill Heffernan, quoted in Katharine Murphy, ‘Bill of the dead’, Melbourne Age, 29 Mar. 2007:

When I was a kid at boarding school, I told on a teacher for saying ‘bloody’.

[Well, you certainly were a precious little nark, weren't you, Bill?]

Anonymous letter to editor (headlined ‘Encouraging Letters’), Creation News, (John Mackay’s Creation Research), Mar. 2007, 2:

Just watched your … new DVD speaking to the UK parliamentarians. And (in my humble opinion) this is the best DVD you’ve done in regard to clearly explaining the philosophy behind these issues. The only down side was we couldn’t see the face of the politician who was ‘aghast’ that someone might mention that the Bible teaches that homosexuals should be stoned to death.

[Straight out of the Christian Reconstructionist handbook. Thanks for sharing.]

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Nancy Campbell, ‘From our Home to Yours’ (editorial), Above Rubies, Nov. 2006 (distributed Feb. 2007), 4:

Most Christians limit their families to one or two children, which is a belief-system rooted in humanism and feminism. It doesn’t come from the Bible.

['Belief-systems' seem to be breeding like rabbits in evangelical literature. Family planning is apparently a discrete 'belief-system' now. What about having sex, Nancy, is that a 'belief-system' too?]

Louise Shaw, ‘Dress to Please’ (part of a longer piece titled ‘Husbands Need Encouragement’), ibid., 6:

Recently I have begun to honour my husband by dressing more femininely and lovely to look upon. I wear far more skirts than before.

[Three at once, do you mean?]

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Damien Spillane,
What About Those Who Have Not Heard, CultureWatch discussion, 24 Jan. 2007, 10pm:

I can’t help but think that God knows each one of us intimately and thus knows how much light would be suitable to draw us to the kingdom. Too much light for those that do not want God can be a bad thing as well. It makes them so much more accountable for their evil that they will be given extra punishment at judgement.

[Quick, anyone seen my shades?]

Babette Francis, ‘Seduced by Lies’, Endeavour Forum Newsletter, Feb. 2007, 1:

The unlovely cabal of feminist Senators who have instigated recent anti-life legislation in Federal Parliament … have been seduced by the lies of egotistical scientists into believing that embryonic stem cells will provide cures for diseases.

[Good old Babette, always gracious in defeat.]

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