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Article by Cameron Spink

Our societies obsession with rights and free choice was again on display today in an article about a gay zombie pornography movie that had been banned from screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival and subsequently refused classification by the Film Classification Board, and rightly so. The article, on news.com.au, states that the director Bruce LaBruce was elated with the finding because "I'll never understand how censors don’t see that the more they try to suppress a film, the more people will want to see it".

His sentiments are echoed in comments under the article where readers declare that Australia is a backwards state because of a lack of free choice to the point where they describe our censorship as an attempt to “nanny” and playing the role of “big brother”. All the comments aren’t negative and it is good to see a certain amount of common sense displayed in some responses calling the film “trash”, “controversial for the point of being controversial” and “way over the line of Free Art”.

A new application has been released for the iPhone. This application, called iDosing, encourages users to enter drug-like states. As the iPhone is a phenomenon for the y-generation this application is going straight into the hands of teens and younger. Make no mistake this seemingly harmless app can lead to serious addiction problems.

iDosing and digital drugs - can your kids really get high without narcotics?
news.com.au, Thursday July 16th

"Free legal drugs that can be downloaded through the internet? Parents, welcome to your new nightmare.

If "iDosing" is not the latest craze, it soon will be, as reports sweep the internet of kids achieving catatonic or hallucinogenic states simply by downloading and listening to "digital drugs".

More news today of a Christian camp being sued for discrimination when they refused to allow individuals to come because of their sexual orientation. While the Equal Opportunity Act does allow religous groups to discriminate Way Out Organisation is arguing that this does not apply in a religious organisation's role as a commercial entity. The Age has more.

Christian Brethren sued for barring camp to gay group
The Age, Thursday July 8th

"The youth support group said it wanted to help gay youth tackle homophobia.

The way the Christian Brethren understood it, allowing the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle at a campsite they owned was against the word of God.

There has been another stark reminder recently on the employment of sex to sell products. Russian Airline Services Avianova have utilised bikini-clad babes in a raunchy advertisement that has come under significant controversy. This, unfortunately, is merely another example of our modern society destitude of standards.

Bill Muehlenberg writes a compelling article about the dangers of post-modernism especially within the University sphere. He criticises and challenges the idea of each persons reality being "true" as opposed to the absolute truth of the Bible.

When Truth Disappears

Article by Bill Muehlenberg

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have bad consequences. Unfortunately in the secular West, the rejection of God – which was meant to bring freedom – has simply resulted in bondage: bondage to bad ideas, bad thinking and bad worldviews.

Article by Cameron Spink

I seem to recall Julia Gillard promising us that “there's more chance of me becoming the full-forward for the Dogs than there is any chance of a change in the Labor party”. Now she is the Prime Minister and it still remains impossible for her to become the Bulldog’s full-forward (what with all AFL stars being male). However, she has now become the first female Prime Minister so in that regard she has certainly broken through the perceived sexism of federal parliament perhaps it is not such a big stretch that she would oust Barry Hall and spearhead the Dogs.

In all seriousness this is bad news from the Australian public. Aside from her deliberate manipulation of the Labor party whilst remaining in the background Gillard is also an outspoken Fabian Socialist and does not prescribe to Christian ethics. For some Christians this seems best, that Australia be run by secularists rather than Christians. However, this logic is lost on me. I’d prefer to see someone who will represent this nation who adheres to our Creator.